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| #[0]​ Just returned to nostr after a while away, what is the situation with     |
| these AI bots? How do you intend to stop people making them en masse and for   |
| nostr to be subsumed by them?                                                  |
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| Have you taken the course? If so, what did you think?                          |
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| It's a meme called 'Pondering My Orb' haha. Originally the image is from the   |
| front cover of an RPG called Middle-earth Quest from 1993.                     |
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| #100DaysOfCode                                                                 |
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| I began with still super simple Java, statements, operators etc, continuing    |
| with Part 1 of the Helsinki course.                                            |
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| Whilst coding today, in the background I've had programmes like Cheers,        |
| Frasier and The King of Queens on. I believe light-hearted sitcoms with morals |
| and family values have the power to save the world. They may be what we need,  |
| everything's a bit intense and serious these days isn't it?                    |
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| (Day 2/100)                                                                    |
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| Today I've simply been working on a few coding challenges to finish off part   |
| one of the course and the mathematical component.                              |
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| I have been somewhat distracted by the news of Musk's new choice of CEO for    |
| Twitter. I am incredibly disappointed and surprised. I am aware that the       |
| intention is to set up a site which facilitates free speech, so I imagine the  |
| reasoning for his choice was that hiring someone with radically liberal        |
| viewpoints would balance out his purported (as of late) conservative           |
| viewpoints and therefore appeal to the maximum amount of people by giving them |
| the sense that their views are also held by people in management. The person   |
| he has hired has been involved in some incredibly questionable activities in   |
| the past which gives me concern about what the future of Twitter may hold in   |
| regards to censorship and freedom. I'm sure Twitter 2.0 will have a future     |
| with this safe, corporate option, but it's saddening that it likely will not   |
| be a beacon of internet freedom like I believed it would be.                   |
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| I believe that a better solution to ensuring a platform remains fair and free  |
| may have been to hire someone who is politically neutral or a freedom loving   |
| individual. To me, there is a question of integrity. It seems to me as though  |
| moves like this may have been done to maximise profits by appealing to         |
| corporations and the masses over furthering ideals and values whilst also      |
| profiting, allowing the empowerment of people through those values to guide    |
| and maximise profits. Personally, I have always been a very values driven      |
| person, it's what gives me a reason to get out of bed, nihilism does not       |
| appeal to me, if nothing has any meaning, why go on? Which is a reason why,    |
| for many years now, Musk has been a hero of mine. I am deeply in love with the |
| ideas of innovation, freedom, both on the internet and offline, including      |
| speech, anti-censorship, net neutrality and for individuals to retain power to |
| manifest their own destiny via decentralisation. One of the reasons I'm        |
| feeling down this evening is because it has made me question whether the       |
| person who I have looked up to for many years might not be who I thought they  |
| were. I hope I am proven wrong.                                                |
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| https://nostr.build/i/b0b3a10f0d83a9f294749681a7291b8019ead0ce5bb6105238a5f3f1 |
| cda6c0c1.jpg                                                                   |
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| Where do you see Bitcoin in 10 years from now?                                 |
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| Good morning 😊                                                                 |
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| Why do you use this?                                                           |
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| Musk is going to end Paypal                                                    |
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| Why?                                                                           |
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| I use Arch btw                                                                 |
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| Interesting! I'll look into this, thank you!                                   |
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| Good luck with your house though! :) I bet that's exciting                     |
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| Thank you for the offer of work, but really what I'm looking for is a way to   |
| get into something blockchain based but related to real estate/architecture    |
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| Does anyone know of anyway I can get involved with real estate/architecture in |
| the blockchain community? My undergraduate degree was in architecture, I'm     |
| learning to code now and intend for my career to be primarily coding based;    |
| but it might be interesting to put my degree to use in some way.               |
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| What is Amish produce like? Something tells me it would be top notch :)        |
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| Pfizer is finally going to be named a terrorist organisation!                  |
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| I'll give Pomodoro a try tomorrow! 😁 I'm doing a ketogenic diet at the moment  |
| though so I'll have to have a think about which snacks I could have 🤔 thank    |
| you!                                                                           |
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| What's your experience with DDG been like? For me, I love what they're doing   |
| but the search results have been sub-par so far in my opinion. I'm currently   |
| using Startpage (Google results proxied).                                      |
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| What are your best productivity hacks to maximise focus over long periods of   |
| time when programming/learning new material? :)                                |
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| Mullvad gang                                                                   |
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| The sense of community and the density of interesting discussion on #nostr are |
| both incredibly refreshing. I'm really excited to see how it evolves. I truly  |
| believe this has the power to emancipate the masses, allowing free and open    |
| discourse once and for all.                                                    |
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| What are everyone's thoughts?                                                  |
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| Keep going #[0] 💪🏻                                                             |
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| What's your opinion on Debian vs Ubuntu? I've been meaning to give Debian a    |
| try seeing as it has so much history                                           |
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| What are your thoughts on it so far? I've heard good things                    |
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| Why the dual boot? :)                                                          |
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| I'd be really interested to gauge what OS is most popular among #nostr users.  |
| Which one do you use as your daily driver? Personally I'm running Ubuntu.      |
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| Thank you! I went with Iris :)                                                 |
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| I'm not sure, I'm new to this and just finding my way around                   |
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| What is the best #nostr desktop client at the moment?                          |
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| I predicted Elon Musk's creation of a new AI company a few months back. It     |
| will surely be using Twitter metadata and I believe this was one of the        |
| driving factors for the acquisition. Genius. Good luck OpenAI!                 |
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| #Reddit has become so woke. Pre ~2014 it was full of smart people talking      |
| about interesting things. Most of these NPCs may as well be bots. #nostr is    |
| where it's at now.                                                             |
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| Carnivore?                                                                     |
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| #100DaysOfCode                                                                 |
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| (Day 1/100)                                                                    |
|                                                                                |
| I began with still super simple Java, statements, operators etc, continuing    |
| with Part 1 of the Helsinki course.                                            |
|                                                                                |
| Whilst coding today, in the background I've had programmes like Cheers,        |
| Frasier and The King of Queens on. I believe light-hearted sitcoms with morals |
| and family values have the power to save the world. They may be what we need,  |
| everything's a bit intense and serious these days isn't it?                    |
|                                                                                |
| (Day 2/100)                                                                    |
|                                                                                |
| Today I've simply been working on a few coding challenges to finish off part   |
| one of the course and the mathematical component.                              |
|                                                                                |
| I have been somewhat distracted by the news of Musk's new choice of CEO for    |
| Twitter. I am incredibly disappointed and surprised. I am aware that the       |
| intention is to set up a site which facilitates free speech, so I imagine the  |
| reasoning for his choice was that hiring someone with radically liberal        |
| viewpoints would balance out his purported (as of late) conservative           |
| viewpoints and therefore appeal to the maximum amount of people by giving them |
| the sense that their views are also held by people in management. The person   |
| he has hired has been involved in some incredibly questionable activities in   |
| the past which gives me concern about what the future of Twitter may hold in   |
| regards to censorship and freedom. I'm sure Twitter 2.0 will have a future     |
| with this safe, corporate option, but it's saddening that it likely will not   |
| be a beacon of internet freedom like I believed it would be.                   |
|                                                                                |
| I believe that a better solution to ensuring a platform remains fair and free  |
| may have been to hire someone who is politically neutral or a freedom loving   |
| individual. To me, there is a question of integrity. It seems to me as though  |
| moves like this may have been done to maximise profits by appealing to         |
| corporations and the masses over furthering ideals and values whilst also      |
| profiting, allowing the empowerment of people through those values to guide    |
| and maximise profits. Personally, I have always been a very values driven      |
| person, it's what gives me a reason to get out of bed, nihilism does not       |
| appeal to me, if nothing has any meaning, why go on? Which is a reason why,    |
| for many years now, Musk has been a hero of mine. I am deeply in love with the |
| ideas of innovation, freedom, both on the internet and offline, including      |
| speech, anti-censorship, net neutrality and for individuals to retain power to |
| manifest their own destiny via decentralisation. One of the reasons I'm        |
| feeling down this evening is because it has made me question whether the       |
| person who I have looked up to for many years might not be who I thought they  |
| were. I hope I am proven wrong.                                                |
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| https://nostr.build/i/b0b3a10f0d83a9f294749681a7291b8019ead0ce5bb6105238a5f3f1 |
| cda6c0c1.jpg                                                                   |
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