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Pixel support was removed from AOSP with Android 16.

It's now harder to support Pixels than many other devices

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this motorola partnership could not not be coming at a better time. wtf is google doing?

Someone at dbrand has a sense of humor 😂

Imagine zapping cents instead of sats 😂

Open Chinese AI models trolling the US government into restricting free speech in the USA is highly ironic, super sad, and destructive.

Banning people from running freely available software on hardware you own is a terrible precedent on a slippery slope down to digital hell.

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Man makes honest app to warn about dishonest activity, gets banned for dishonest activity. Scammers still roam free.

Welcome to the hell that is walled gardens.

"Gold has overtaken US government bonds as the world’s top reserve asset following years of relentless buying by central banks and a historic rally that has seen prices nearly double over the past two years." - FT

probably nothing

Imagine sitting on $400 BILLION of cash and allocating ZERO percent of it to Bitcoin.

Berkshire Hathaway shareholders should be furious.

We need a car company with the ethos of Framework Computer.

Put the store on ice last night, as planned. All orders are packed and going out today. Customers will get an email with tracking info, and the app should show tracking info as well.

Thanks to all those who participated 💜

As mentioned yesterday, I'm shutting down the

store tonight at 11pm ET until further notice.

Keep those orders rolling in! All orders go out tomorrow.

Shipping is free. The more you order, the more you save. And of you decide to add more later, there's no cost to making another order!

Prices seem high because of the depressed BTCUSD rate, but remember these items are of the highest quality.

Heck yeah! Love to see it

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I had some leftover inventory after doing the holiday baskets, so I made a new storefront to sell it all.

It's a complete PWA that you can install on your phone. All the convenience, none of the gatekeeping and privacy shenangians.

Once you've put your shipping address in, which is stored locally on your device (no account, not even nostr!) making a purchase is just a matter of making a couple taps.

Scan a Lightning QR to pay.

It's stupid simple, very convenient, highly private, and quick. I'm proud of the experience.

Free shipping on everything until tomorrow 2/21.

Try it!

This is an experiment I'm running today and tomorrow. All orders will ship out on Sunday, and then I will suspend the store until further notice.

Special thanks to all the vendors who worked with me earlier...most of them have items on the store now! And let me tell you, if you don't already know, it's all outstanding stuff.

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Helluva landing page 😂

The new

storefront will make ordering the best stuff made by bitcoiners for bitcoin stupid easy.

Not almost as good as legacy solutions.

Straight up better.

More private since data will be stored locally. Less to remember since there are no accounts. More convenient since you don't have to enter credit card info or billing address -- just scan a QR code to pay with Lightning. No mobile app to get past gatekeepers -- it's a PWA you save to your device directly.

We have the tech. Let's put it to use!

It appears a new approach for the web version of Google Maps is being tested for users not signed in:

• no reviews show, only aggregate star rating
• only business hours for the current day show
• can't browse list of search results; when you click a result, the results list disappears

This means the biggest store of critical, up-to-date information about local businesses around the globe is being closed off into an opaque black box.

Alarming and infuriating.

While you're using AI to work with code, your accountant is also using AI...and doxxing your whole financial life to it, whether you like it or not.

GM

New storefront for bitcoin/nostr merchants coming soon.

Prioritizing a smooth experience and convenience for all involved, while staying true to the principles we're all here for.

I was trusting before but now I have verified...

hodl bars are delicious!

I looked into Upscrolled a bit more. One of its major advantages over Nostr is that its onboarding process...it's simple. It's familiar. Download the app, sign up for an account, and off you go.

No one is going to take the time to understand WTF a cryptographic keypair is, much less invest the care to responsibly handle opsec for that keypair. It's alien tech to them...they don't understand it, and more importantly, they don't understand why it even matters. Why deal with this weird keypair thing when everything else in my life uses a username and password?

Nostr client apps need to offer a way to log in with conventional email/password with the npub/nsec abstracted away in the background. Of course, the keypair should be available for the user to grab in the settings whenever they want if/when their understanding matures and they want to move to another client app.

This might seem like blasphemy to us. I know most Nostr developers would probably flinch at the prospect of having a database of email addresses mapped to npubs, and perhaps even worse, at having a database of nsecs (lol). But it's necessary for us (as those looking to grow this network, aka #grownostr) to realize this is critical if Nostr will have any shot at taking advantage of growth waves and going mainstream. No amount of marketing or influencers or incentives will change this.

Those of us who've been in the Bitcoin world for a while know by now that the chances of getting a normie to take custody of their funds with seed words and an advanced wallet are slim-to-none. A graduated approach starting with something simpler is much more realistic.

Then why are we assuming these same people will use any app that requires the same kind of nerdy mindset for Nostr? It's not realistic. This is partly why PGP failed. We need easier options to start people off upfront, and then provide a gently path toward cypherpunk enlightenment and advancement.

They won't all make it, but at least more will try.

These emails are proof positive that humans don't need E2EE to discuss vile thoughts and actions. They'll just do it in the open.

So no need to compromise the E2EE tools we already have in the name of safety, right? Right??

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Maybe this AI wave will benefit FOSS when agents realize how much more they can do with FOSS instead of closed, proprietary software. I would think they care more about raw function than convenience.

Low Tech and Low Time [Preference] FTW

SNAGGED. Sounded irresistable. Only 2 left!!

Been trying to use gitworkshop.dev to host a repository with a single file -- README.md. But browsing through other repositories on there...it's 50/50 whether the repo will load or not. Half the time the repo will load, and the other half it just indefinitely hangs. Wonder why...

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I've been an EV critic for a long time. They still have their issues, and you will never stop me from having at least one gas/diesel car for enjoyment (and emergency). But after a few months of living with a couple different models, I can see the appeal for some specific scenarios.

But there's something else that bothers me about Tesla specifically, aside from the relentless vertical integration with parts, service, and maintainability (which is not specific to Tesla, EVs, or even the car industry since enshittification is happening everywhere these days).

Why are Teslas so plain, sterile, bland, and soulless? The Cybertruck dials this up to 11 with its cold, post-apocalyptic, brutalist appearance.

Why? There is no technological reason for this. It's a philosophical choice that says a lot about the company's vision of the future.

Where's the beauty? Where's the sophistication? Where's the color? Where are the natural materials? Where's the real wood, quilted leather, amazing seats, buttons, dials, browns, greens, and other sophistications that make a car a gorgeous, inviting place to be? It's not that Tesla executed this badly...they didn't even try. All their cars are like this, whether you buy a base-level Model 3 for $40k or a top-spec Cyberbeast for $120k.

Profit maximization is not a good enough explanation for this. It was a conscious and intentional choice the company made, and they market it as "futuristic". If this is the "future" that Tesla envisions (and designs for) then clearly it's a dystopian future where humans aren't welcome...where human senses are unimportant and irrelevant, where beautiful comfort is traded for cold utility, and where humanity is subservient to technology. It's a dark and depressing worldview. And one I will have no part in.

I'm an optimist. My personal opinion is that WAGMI, and I will always be on Team Human.

Anyone that isn't can swiftly GTFO.

An interactive SHA-256 visualizer -- this is what real "crypto" looks like:

https://hashexplained.com/

via https://stacker.news/items/1409991

Is there a good 3-word tagline for Nostr yet? For Bitcoin, I like "Money without Masters".

For Nostr, I'm thinking "Service without Subservience".

Any other ideas?

You say paranoid, I say prepared.

Is there some easy way to make a Nostr post but not broadcast it until later? I need to save the event hex and do some processing before the post is broadcasted. Amethyst only shows me naddr which won't work. Gossip has an option to "Show raw preview" but it's always greyed out.

Do any clients do this? Would prefer to have a GUI.

#asknostr

Using scrcpy to get Amethyst on desktop right now to browse and write this note...so this looks glorious.

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What's the difference between "All Follows" and "All User Follows" on Amethyst?

#asknostr

generously gifted me a block of their El Clásico cacao. I just made their Columbian Breakfast recipe and it's incredible!!! Highly recommended.

Proof of Work converted into Proof of Deliciousness 🫡

https://www.bitcoinbeans.co/proofofdeliciousness

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