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CodexArcana··on FEMA advises Gov. DeWine Ohio is not eligible for assistance at this time
The rail company didn't show because of safety concerns. FEMA doesn't show because they're not needed, according to them. The people can't go back because it's unsafe. Let's just scratch it off the map at this point and call it a day.
CodexArcana··on Turkey earthquake: please keep 28.540 clear for communications
I was deep into a hyper fixation hole at work today and crawled out of it only to hear about this tragedy. It felt pretty weird...
CodexArcana··on Nostr.how – A Complete Guide to Nostr
Relays are not prohibited from communicating with each other. There just isn't a defined and agreed on method to do so. Maybe there never will be. But that doesn't mean you can't build a relay server that has a replication feature. It would simply be proprietary.
CodexArcana··on Nostr.how – A Complete Guide to Nostr
No. Some clients include the ability to make lightning transactions via them but that's not part of the protocol.
CodexArcana··on Nostr.how – A Complete Guide to Nostr
I don't know if clients support this yet but you can transmit a suggested relay with your post that people can add to their list of relays. That suggested relay should be one you control. That way they always have a point of truth for your notes.
CodexArcana··on Why ultra-light urban vehicles offer the only viable future for EVs
I live and work in the same town. I have a 5 minute drive. Our town has basically everything we need. I'd drive the shit out of a car like this. It wouldn't matter if it has range. We'll probably have 2 cars until the kids are out of the house, so even if one of them is electric that's better than nothing.
CodexArcana··on Mysterious Adderall shortage puts ADHD patients at risk
Because our society is built on soft eugenics. If it was palatable the state would have liquified us ages ago for being a burden to society.
CodexArcana··on Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
Have you ever considered deplatforming the average user drives them deeper down the right-wing hole? Trump and Fuentes are not in a vacuum talking to no one. They're talking to all the normans that were also deplatformed with them. Isolation breeds extremists. The only thing I agree with musk on is that limiting reach is better than deplatforming. Not for the reasons he thinks. People need to be able to dog pile and bully these idiots, and only weirdos are going to sign up on Truth Social just to do that.
CodexArcana··on Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
Yeah, people should really go to the GitHub repo and actually read it. It doesn't even need to be a Twitter like. It could be a WordPress like, or a Discord like, it's already running chess, it's already blog comments.

It could be a community run closed system where only citizens are given access to the system.

It doesn't (and I think shouldn't) have any crypto features built in. That's up to the client builders to handle.

CodexArcana··on Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
Right but if I'm hosting my own mode that only I post to, in conjunction with other nodes, my followers get my posts from my node of im Black listed.

I think when you sub to someone you're also sent a list of nodes that a person uses. So when I'm banned you already have my node in your list, so you won't even notice.

CodexArcana··on Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
You don't. OOTB you just need keys. But NOSTR is unfortunately crypto adjacent and is being co-opted by crypto bros.
CodexArcana··on Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
Yeah relay is a bad name for it.
CodexArcana··on 🥺: the best sudo replacement
Just look at what happened to Prince.
CodexArcana··on GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
Lol brown outs is such a nicer name, but I've always known them as a scream test.
CodexArcana··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
but then is not a pipe!
CodexArcana··on Lights kept on at a Mass. school for a year because no one can turn them off
Man... I don't envy the custodial/maintenance/IT Staff at this school one bit.
CodexArcana··on For your next side project, make a browser extension
If your intentions are to only use the extension for yourself, why not just side load it?
CodexArcana··on Facebook, Instagram Ban Ads Targeted at Teens Based on Gender
> Honestly, they shouldn’t be allowed to advertise to teens at all

That line of thinking went out the window when old Ronnie boy was elected into office. And God bless him too. Where would we be without G.I. Joe, He-man, Transformers, Care Bears, and My Little Pony?

CodexArcana··on Gaetz introduces amendment to bring C-SPAN cameras back to House floor
The British Parliament has a live feed, they've had it forever.
CodexArcana··on And Just Like That, America Becomes More Rural
Yeah same here.
CodexArcana··on Furby source code (1998)
And Rumors were they were Chinese spy devices. They were highly politicized for almost no reason that I can find. https://thriftcon.co/blogs/news-culture/the-nsa-once-banned-...
CodexArcana··on Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens
That's not what you said. You said "why does the EU believe that every part of life needs government regulation."

And it's because, as Milton Friedman once said, "a corporation's responsibility is to make as much money for the stockholders as possible."

Without a counter balance you wouldn't have seat belts, crumple zones, fuel efficiency standards, the list goes on and on. Safety is not the responsibility of the corporation. Their only priority is profit.

CodexArcana··on Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
In the heyday of BitTorrent sharing was the incentive, and still is I imagine. We don't need to financialize everything.
CodexArcana··on TikTok is ‘digital fentanyl,’ incoming GOP China committee chair says
I saw a cop once try and confiscate someone's phone at a traffic stop and as soon as they touched it they dropped to the ground and started twerking uncontrollably. Sad.
CodexArcana··on TikTok is ‘digital fentanyl,’ incoming GOP China committee chair says
It's not any more dangerous than Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, and Instagram.

Facebook participates as part of the NSA spying apparatus. They conducted studies that showed they could alter the emotional state of it's users by altering the content being shown in their feed. They actively engaged in political misinformation campaigns on behalf of the GOP as shown via the Cambridge Analytica scandal. They have direct causal links to fomenting genocide.

Instagram showed from its own internal studies it induces eating disorders in young children (specifically girls) who use their platform.

YouTube profits off the exploration of children either algorithmically or through the monetization of family channels. They algorithmicly promote misinformation and conspiracy.

Snapchat by design facilitates the transmission of unconsentual sexual content. Revenge porn, both of adults and children have been actively shared on the platform in recent years, and due to it's design it makes it incredibly difficult for law enforcement to obtain definitive evidence of it's transmission.

All of these companies harvest biometric information and archive them for resale.

If the GOP was having an honest discussion about the way social media impacts users, they'd be discussing powerful privacy regulations and laws to protect users from these threats. However, they're not. Everything they disapprove of in regards to TikTok and Bytdance is something the American surveillance apparatus has been doing for decades.

CodexArcana··on Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?
I just made the switch this week after reading the news about the most recent hack from LastPass. The UX for 1password was so refreshing after using LastPass for so long. The switching process was very simple. The only issue I had was getting dupes from the shared folders from the family account.
CodexArcana··on Bring Back Personal Blogging
You're just accusing him of participating in the "society" he's looking to amend and improve which just dismisses his entire post.

You could try engaging with the content intellectually.

His points about owning your content down to where it's hosted is a valid message worth engaging with.

CodexArcana··on Bring Back Personal Blogging
Some kind of discovery protocol for blogs RSS feeds would be nice. Maybe BlueSky will fill that void. There probably are services already doing something like that, but it still puts a central authority in control of the discovery.
CodexArcana··on “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”
In order for governments to do that the systems have to have a way for an authority to intervene and reverse the transaction...

Which is expressly impossible to do without creating a fork of the chian... Which is pretty contrary to the ethos of the white papers for Bitcoin.

CodexArcana··on DEA Pressed ADHD-Drug Makers About Impact of Telehealth Firms on Surging Demand
As someone who legitimately suffers from adult ADHD I just hope it doesn't impact my ability to get my medication.
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