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Storm shows British state can’t cope with climate chaos

Storm Bert has battered Britain. But so much of the devastation could have been avoided

https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/storm-showed-british-state-cant-cope-with-climate-chaos/

#UK #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

@Snoro

Bitcoin might help.
Bitcoin ends all money printing.
Bitcoin will never have more than 21 Million.

If you want to fund militarism, you have to ask the people to fund it and if they dont, you are out of luck.

No more money printing to pay for militarism.

If we dont switch to bitcoin or something alike, capitalists will continue to abuse the money printers to fund militarism to the detriment of all of us

@Hyolobrika @Snoro

its pretty mich on topic.
it might not look like it is connected but it very much is

@serapath @Snoro bitcoin definitely will not help.

Oh, you're also on nostr, that explains it 😜

@chewie @Snoro

Bitcoin will help with taking away the capitalist money printer privilege.

It wont just over night change the difference between poor and rich - this will require further steps, such as mutual aid and worker cooperatives and so on, but at least, anything that is successful cant just be outspent by capitalists printing money and make a cheaper copy cat where everyone is paid way more.

no more billionaires - they all got printed rich.

@chewie @Snoro

i am on nostr because it is the only truly decentralized social network.

1. it give you a keypair to be in charge instead of email/password managed by instance admins, where they are part of the name others know you by and, where they theoretically could impersonate or censor you.

2. you always have to choose one instance

in relay based your signing keypair owned by you is your account and you can use any relay (=instance) interchangably and even at the same time

@Hyolobrika @serapath @Snoro @silverpill @arcanicanis cool! Sounds complicated!

@serapath @Snoro I like the idea of nostr, but the last time I tried it, it was all cryptobro BS, which was a turn off. I should try it again and see if the noise has died down... probably not due to the outcome of the US elections though 😞

@chewie @Snoro

you can set your client to only see stuff from ppl you follow and then follow only cool people and over time your personal social network can grow organically without instqnce admins blocking other instances without you having a say.

this just doesnt exist in nostr.

@Hyolobrika @chewie @Snoro @silverpill @arcanicanis

i am not against it - but i am not a big fan of the big tech standard bodies approach.

i am all for people hacking on stuff and using it and sharing it with others who might adopt it.

let it be a more natural approach whwre adoption means it becomes an industry standard or best practice.

anyone can propose, other can adopt to grow how widespread something becomes.

source code is the spec and LLMs can soon translate to english if needdd

@chewie @Hyolobrika @Snoro @silverpill @arcanicanis
agree... btw. thats true for so many big tech standard body stuff... imho its just not the way of the ppl and not the way of decentralization

@chewie @Snoro

check my pinned post for a "starter list" and some relays i use

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@serapath/113182035970419389

i currently use primal as my nostr app, but there are many, not sure which one is the best.
heatd amnethyst and snort and freenom and iris are fine too.. but there are many more

@serapath @arcanicanis @Hyolobrika @Snoro @chewie Those posts were not written by big tech standards bodies. They explain some minor technical details, so yes, that might look complicated, but an average developer don't need to think about that, like he doesn't need to think about how HTTP and TLS work.

By the way, the up-to-date high-level spec is here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md

@silverpill @arcanicanis @Hyolobrika @Snoro @chewie

oh sweet. didnt know about it.
i like that.

i still prefer writing code and adopting it over writing specs.
code is executable spec.
maybe not as human readable, but when if not now could you use AI to turn it into readble english?

i remember a time when standards happened because the majority of users adopted a specific package as their dependency.

i really do prefer that over writing specs

@serapath @arcanicanis @Hyolobrika @Snoro @chewie I write specs because other developers use different programming languages and can't easily read my code. Even if they a familiar with the language, it takes time to understand someone else's codebase, and communicating in human language is much easier.

Another reason is implementation details: every software is unique and developers usually don't want to copy each other. Only features that are common between different implementations are described in specs, this is necessarily a collaborative process.

@silverpill @arcanicanis @Hyolobrika @Snoro @chewie

i still dont like it.
dat manages to have a compatible rust implementation by following the js source.

writing the code is a spec.
there is also a community around to ask questions.

every time i have seen spec it is usually guarded by a relatively small group who controls it and claims ownership of "the truth" regardless of whether the spec is good or not.