Making progress with @OpenSecret , first channel open. Need a lightning address for general use. If I subscribe to mutiny plus and get an address, does it still work if I stop paying subs the following month? Or is it 16,000 sats a month to rent the address?

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#asknostr Calling all #grapheneOS hackers. Have you solved the 'play protect certification' issue on your now degoogled device? Nanny play store won't let me touch a couple of apps, because they're "not compatible with your device", which apparently means they need assurance that the device is play protect certified. There's a workaround and a toggle setting but I can't find specifics. Please help... sats for a working solution that doesn't involve "go use aurora". Thanks 🙏

Zaps will be on pause for a while. Sorry folks. View quoted note →

@Laeserin 🇻🇦 is doing great work in articulating this position. Tune in to understand what's happening. This feels like a critical point for the social aspect of Nostr. Not quite the 'blocksize wars' but there's definitely something going on, and it's more than just innovative developers getting criticized by laggards. Edits are to this 'new free speech experience' what backdoors are to encryption. It's really that serious. So I continue to wonder if there's some deliberate mischief-making and chaos-sowing, to how resilient this thing is already, and whether it's likely to become a threat to the self-styled overlords. For example, incentives are not aligned, if Vitor breaks the Nostr social experience from the inside, he gains favor from his current and previous clients, and can 'frame' the experience in a professional/respectable way on his CV, with no personal accountability. Slay your heros and think clearly. @nakad.ai🔱🦁🛡️🏯📿 warned us about this a year ago, wish I could find the old notes, I've been uneasy every since. @DarthCoin ₿⚡️ is another npub who helps clear the cobwebs from my mind every so often. Gather such people into your virtual council chamber and listen carefully, the prophetic voices are a gift. View quoted note →

The most sobering part of this talk was the call to acknowledge our own hypocrisy. I'm still living very comfortably within the system and accumulating bitcoin as a hedge. I haven't hodled my stash out of ideological commitment, I hodled it because I didn't need to touch it, since the fiat stream is covering my needs and I'm generally a contented family guy. I've played with freedom tech because it's fun and reinforces my cypherpunk larp, and zapped some developers as penance. Yes, I home educate and complain about government overreach, but I still ask permission from the same government each year to continue home educating. My real ideal is the quiet life and that means I tolerate far more than I should, for much longer than I should. My fiat mining is probably contributing to the problem, and building the world I don't want to see. I'm guessing that this incongruence is what's making me unhappy at work, because on paper it's a dream job at the top of my professional curve. On a spiritual level too, there's incongruence in building babylon and the kingdoms of men, rather than making way for the kingdom of God. Don't know where I go from here, but it's good to transmit this confessional note to my frens over whatever relays are listening. Selah. View quoted note →