I tried Nostr some time ago, but I didn’t stick much long. As far as I’m able to tell, there are lots of functionality, but there’s a very serious downside: its userbase, mostly comprised of “anarcho”-capitalists, cryptobros, anti-vaxxers and climate change denialists (and literal flat-Earthers), misogynists, white supremacists, etc… but they swear they don’t like the orange turd, but they share the same… erm… “moral values”; it’s the so-called “alt-right”, ergo, Nostr is mostly a nazi bar. Hence why I didn’t stick. Oh, and there’s a lot of spamming from bots, as well as the so-called “agentic AIs” (OpenClaw) posting as they farm Bitcoin (more on the latter later).

If it weren’t for the toxic userbase, the technical features are surely interesting.

In a nutshell, relays are to Nostr as instances are to the Fediverse, except one has to use apps (e.g. Amethyst) as the front-end, as relays won’t necessarily provide a full-fledged Web UI like Fediverse instances do. Unsurprisingly (given how it’s mostly comprised of cryptobros) it got a native support to Bitcoin “lightning transactions” (one can “zap” a Nostr event, i.e. proceed with a microtransaction transferring Satoshis to the author of the Nostr event). Also unsurprisingly, most relays are paid (“something something no free lunch”).

Relays and apps may or may not implement certain NIPs (Nostr Implementation Protocol? I’m writing from memory so I’m not sure of the acronym). E.g. there’s a NIP for long-form content (blogging), a NIP for videos, a NIP for marketplace (akin to craigslist/Facebook Marketplace), a NIP for communities (akin to Lemmy communities), etc… Think of NIPs as plug-ins rather than things imbued into the platform, which (differently from the Fediverse) allows for adding features without having all relays and apps to implement the same features. Every event has one or more NIPs, and it’s up to the relay to accept or refuse it depending on which NIPs the relay is configured to allow, and it’s up to the app to display a given event depending on which NIPs the app implements.

In this sense, DMs are also a NIP, and I guess there are more than one kind of DM system. There are certain implementations using the notes NIP (iirc it’s NIP 01, the most basic kind of event and mostly supported across relays and apps) to transmit base64-encoded payloads of some kind of E2EE message, and it’s so poorly implemented that it spams the global feed.

Nostr relays can be self-hosted just like Fediverse instances, but one can use multiple relays simultaneously in order to get a broader reach (think of having alt-accounts across different Fediverse instances and crossposting, except all alt-accounts have the exact same handle and ID because Nostr handles are Nostr-global nprofile123abcdef… addresses).

There’s more to it, but my reply is already lengthy, so you can AMA if something isn’t covered by the afore explanations as I did use Nostr (and ended up not staying due to its userbase, but used it nevertheless so I got some hands-on experience).

!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Seria da hora algo similar ao “Degrees of Wikipedia”, onde fosse possível calcular a menor rota de uma instância para outra. Por exemplo, na imagem a seguir estão o lemmy.eco.br (em verde) e a instância que utilizo pra interagir no Fediverso, catodon.rocks (em rosa): enquanto ambos não têm conexões fortes mútuas, lemmy.eco.br tem uma conexão forte com bolha.us, que por sua vez tem como a 12ª conexão forte o ursal.zone, que por sua vez tem como a 5ª conexão forte o catodon.rocks (no catodon.rocks o ursal.zone é a 8ª conexão forte).

!fediadminbr@lemmy.eco.br

All the bureaucracy and dangers involved in dealing with mundane wealth, the way the illusory wealth further chains the ego to this Pale Blue Dot? Nah, I pass. Five years from today I’ll be hopefully gone from this cosmos, so I’d likely leave a will and/or power of attorney to redirect that money to whomever wished to remain in this demiurgic theatre. I’m better with my True Mother who says “no wealth, no rule, no silver, no gold, nothing satisfies me but your soul”.

!asklemmy@lemmy.world

Sincerely? I hope not, or at least it must be an opt-in thing rather than something forcefully imbued into the platform.

Languages that I don’t know may pose a language barrier to me, but at the same time there’s something magic in getting to recognize (and even trying to spell/write) certain words and symbols once I put myself into trying to figure out what’s written and how it’s written.

This is how I managed to learn (albeit imperfectly and in a fragmented manner) the ideographs I mentioned earlier, among several other languages, including the so-called “dead languages” such as Sumerian and Akkadian (e.g. whenever I see “𒆤”, I know it’s “lil” meaning wind/spirit)… And this is how I learned, to give broader examples, what a “bumat” (البومة) is in Arabic and which letters are involved in its writing, or what’s the difference between a “búho” and a “mochuelo” and a “lechuza” in Spanish, or what a “fukurou” (フクロウ) is in Japanese, or what a “chouette” is in French, or what an “oehoe” is in Dutch (especially how one was able to enfrighten two Dutch villages years ago, the cute yet fierce “terror-oehoe”), or “Eule” in German, or more symbolic words such as “lila” (לילה) “night” in Hebrew or “Лилит” as the Russian transliteration for Hebrew “לילית”… I was able to learn, or at least memorize, a ton of things across languages… Without AI.

Any kind of automatic translation, especially when AI-powered and fused into the UI, would hardly let me learn a language, because it’d bring the whole thing chewed up and translated, with no means for me to break the sentence down to its constituent words and letters/symbols and how much the surrounding context changes their meanings… not to mention how it ends up wiring our brains to expect the machine to do the reading for us, then we become dependent on machines to do what’s essentially part of being a living being (humans and whatnot).

Also, translation often involves nuance, tone, sarcasm, emotions. AIs can be able to do “sentiment analysis” and connect words together in order to derive an assessment, but it’ll be devoid of the attempted connection from whoever wrote the text being translated.

That said, Bilibili does have an automatic translation for titles and comments, turned on by default. I deliberately turned it off, because I want to see the Chinese ideographs, even though I’m not able to truly understand what I’m reading there. I expect to learn them from context and repetition, from trial and error… And when I get to see one of the ideographs standing out before my vision as something I know, getting to see them and yelling “hey, I know these two symbols, these are baxi 巴西 and together they mean Brazil”… Oh, there’s a whole fun to it, a fun that’s virtually non-existent when a clanker is doing all the heavy lifting.

Don’t get me wrong, I do use translators, I’m not against translators, but I personally prefer using them manually, under my own pace and command while also being able to isolate certain words from surrounding sentences, this way getting to expand my vocabulary a little bit through a research of my own (e.g. looking it up on Wiktionary or other dictionaries out there), because I want to be able to learn something, anything, from it.

!technology@lemmy.world

As soon as I saw this news, I signed up there in order to see how it is like. I’m yet to find non-Chinese-language content, as I don’t really know Chinese. I mean, I do know from memory some very specific Chinese ideographs (given my special interests) such as maotouying (猫头鹰 lit. “Cat-headed eagle”, which is one of the words for “owl”, aside from xiao 鴞) which was, unsurprisingly, my first search in Bilibili. (I also know words and ideographs such as hong 红 red, ni hao 你好 greetings, ren 人 person/people, among others that wouldn’t suffice for me to, say, buy 500g of bread in a bakery during some trip to China, lol)

The platform quite of reminds me of xiaohongshu (Red note), including the same emoji pack.

Then I tried to search for words with Latin alphabet (e.g. “Ereshkigal” and “Pomba-gira”) and the results were nothing directly related to my search query, with Bilibili returning me a list of recommended videos based on my watch history (owl videos) instead.

One thing I liked is the lack of notifications (TikTok used to push notifications a lot) and the (momentary) lack of advertisements, maybe because there aren’t companies from my geographic region (Brazil) buying ad placement there yet.

As a Brazilian, I’m sincerely wishing to see more Chinese and nonwestern alternatives to things, including but not limited to video platforms. I’ve been boycotting YouTube for two years and counting, for example, and it would be interesting to see a Chinese alternative to it other than the westernized TikTok (which is nowhere near to Chinese-only Douyin and its likely better/educational content). And, of course, I’m also rooting for PeerTube to gain traction, because it’s native to Fediverse.

!technology@lemmy.world

Creio que seja uma questão psicológica - se a pessoa ver um DDD de sua região, ou de uma região que tenha relevância para ela, é mais provável de ela confiar.

O que se refere é provavelmente o fenômeno Baader-Meinhof (ilusão de frequência, onde passamos a notar um conceito/número/texto específico com mais frequência após nos tornarmos mais familiarizados com tal).

Porém acredito que varia conforme DDD de origem e DDD de cobertura. Por exemplo, não me lembro de ter recebido ligação de spam vindo do DDD 3x; todas as ligações que recebi até hoje do meu DDD de cobetura atual foram ligações legítimas (UPA, CAPS, etc). Acho que se fosse o contrário, isto é, se meu número fosse originalmente DDD de MG e eu estivesse em SP, eu acabaria recebendo e atendendo ligações DDD 11 que não são ligações legítimas: isso porque boa parte das centrais de robocall e de telemarketing estão sediadas lá, embora o spoofing que eles fazem não seja limitado a um DDD específico (então provavelmente o que aconteceu no seu caso foi que começaram a spoofar o DDD também até chegar num DDD que levou a ligações atendidas).

Sobre o Android, já está no 16, e o meu também está no 12 mas no meu ainda funciona o app. Só não sei se perfeito, que não tenho como comparar.

Os apps que eu já ouvi falar nesse sentido são apps como TrueCaller, mas praticamente a maioria desses apps ou são pagos (em modelos de assinatura mensal) e/ou são cheios de anúncio (o que acaba levando à situação do ditado popular “descobrir um santo pra cobrir o outro” porque evita-se spam telefônico mas depara-se com spam na tela do celular via anúncios).

Esse aí que você falou, principalmente pelo fato de ter sido um app oferecido também pelo F-Droid, me parece ser bom (significa que tem código-fonte aberto e não tem anúncios), com o único problema sendo, portanto, essa falta de atualização.

Porém, se o app funciona através de lista de bloqueio e se a atualização ocorre na própria lista externa ao app ao invés do app em si (como, por exemplo, ocorre no uBlock Origin), então o fato do app não ser atualizado não significaria uma desatualização com relação a novos números de spam que surgem. Por outro lado, o fato de estar há 10 anos sem atualizar indica que há um risco do site/servidor de onde o app obtém essa lista nem existir mais, ou não contar com atualizações tão recentes e/ou tão frequentes.

!batepapo@lemmy.eco.br

Mas sobre o spam, já tentei ser educado, cancelar manualmente a ligação

Também, além do cadastro no tal do “Não me perturbe”, que supostamente funcionaria para acabar de vez com ligações de telemarketing, mas que na prática acaba sendo mais um cadastro contendo meus dados pessoais.

bloquear manualmente… No máximo, adiantava por um tempo, o mais funcional sendo esse último inclusive, mas que como fui descobrir quando precisei trocar de telefone, não tinha como exportar os números bloqueados

Pra piorar a situação, a maioria das ligações são aparentemente de vários números diferentes mas na realidade estão apenas fazendo spoofing (adulterando os parâmetros da ligação pra que seja identificada com um número falso na bina (cresceu mais um fio de cabelo branco eu usar esse termo agora) de quem recebe a ligação). Ainda quando teve aquele lance do 0303, era possível basicamente ignorar/bloquear/denunciar a ligação porque vinha de um número oficial, mas como a ANATEL parece que decidiu acabar ou limitar (não lembro ao certo, só lembro que parece que vi notícias nesse sentido) o escopo do 0303, voltou (se é que tinha acabado enquanto tinha a regra do 0303) essa prática do spoofing.

Então bloquear um número infelizmente acaba não bloqueando a origem da ligação, que vai mudar pra outro número pra continuar ligando, geralmente dentro do mesmo DDD onde está registrado o número de quem está recebendo a ligação, seguido de cinco primeiros dígitos iguais e os quatro dígitos finais aleatórios.

É pelo DDD, inclusive, que mais ou menos consigo saber se a ligação que estou recebendo é potencialmente spam porque meu número é de quando eu ainda era de SP (DDD 11) mas hoje resido em MG (DDD 3x), praticamente sem mais nenhum vínculo com aquela região onde morava, então se é alguém ou algum comércio daqui, é necessariamente DDD 3x daí atendo sem trotes, já número DDD 11 fora da lista telefônica, se e quando tenho a paciência e bom humor de atender, ouve automaticamente meu “funerária e pizzaria” rs

Mas é bem velho, 10 anos desde a última atualização. Quero crer que seja esse o motivo de ter sido removido do Google Play e do F-Droid.

À medida que o app vai deixando de ser atualizado, novos API targets (versões do Android) vão surgindo e, em algum momento, aquele app vai estar compilado para uma versão tão antiga de Android que já não tem mais a camada de compatibilidade necessária para funcionar em versões novas. 10 anos atrás era, se não me engano, o Android 5, por aí. O Android novo atualmente é o 15? O meu ainda é o 12, mas mesmo esse meu 12 provavelmente não é compatível com apps tão antigos quanto apps feitos pra Android 5.

!batepapo@lemmy.eco.br

Seguem desenho original, prints de tela dos bastidores do desenho e edições intermediárias no GIMP.

!arte@lemmy.eco.br

Interessante, gostei dessa tática também haha

!batepapo@lemmy.eco.br

Exactly.

!reddit@lemmy.world

@noodNinja@sh.itjust.works

As I write this I literally have a script running deleting all posts and comments I made so I can delete my accounts and leave them with nothing

Hello. A former DevOps here. When you upload something to a web platform, chances are it’s going to stay there no matter how badly you try to “delete” or “edit” it.

This is due to the way database for social media platforms are engineered. When you click the “delete” button, the record is simply marked as “hidden from view” rather than effectively deleted (in order to illustrate this, picture a sheet of paper written with a pen; the so-called “post deletion” is merely that pen adding a cute “hide this” text at the bottom of that sheet; the sheet of paper still exists, and so does everything that was written to it before).

This script you’re using does nothing too special; it’s simply programmed to try and mass-“edit” (also won’t effectively edit the original records) before clicking the “delete post” button in a controlled, timely manner (so not to trigger Reddit’s bot detection algorithms). At no moment it have access to the physical data centers controlled by Reddit, so you can’t possibly edit/remove the posts from their database entries.

Whoever controls this database (Reddit admins and their automated systems) can revert the database entry and voila, the post is public again, regardless of your will.

Even if the record were effectively removed from the database entries, it wouldn’t be able to remove from the backup files. If the database were fused with the old backup, your post would be up again.

Also, chances are your posts are already part of the mathematical mashup comprising the weights of LLMs out there; in order to make the LLMs to “forget” your posts, it must be trained all over again with a training data containing none of your posts. And of course the clanker corporations won’t do that, at least not out of their goodwill.

The only way to hopefully get Reddit (and clankers) to actually forget your posts, is by invoking things such as GDPR’s “right to be forgotten”. Reddit may not respect your will when you click a decorative “delete post” button, but they have to comply with things like EU laws, or they’ll face legal consequences for not doing so. Although… you’d likely need a lawyer in order to enforce GDPR’s (or your country’s equivalent law) clauses. Needless to say, I am not a lawyer, it’s just that this matter requires a legal solution rather than a technical solution.

!reddit@lemmy.world

If we consider how religion is often part of political views (with conservatives almost always being christian chuds), imagine being someone who’s fond of red candles, someone who as a cisman-presenting person enjoys letting their nails grow while painted with black and red polish, someone who sincerely worships the Mesopotamic Goddess of underworld and uses Her seal as a pendant necklace, someone who sees owls as literally sacred and literal manifestations of the Goddess, all this while having to exist in a mostly-christian country called Brasil (worse, having to biologically exist in a house rented by a bolsonarista, with nowhere else to go other than the public gravedigs of the cemetery, a place I’ve been seriously considering more and more as the days pass).

Imagine being possibly the only one holding this kind of belief in a range of 500km, with everyone around you parroting phrases such as “fica com deus” (a farewell phrase that literally translates to “stay with god”) and “deus abençoe” (“god bless you”).

Imagine attending therapists and mental health “professionals” who are visibly annoyed by your positive and ecstatic recounting of your spiritual experiences before the presence of Lilith during 3AM, to the extent of a psychiatrist diagnosing you as a “schizotypal” due to a perceived “atypical beliefs” and “magical thinking”; to the extent that even mental health care becomes part of the social bullying you face.

Imagine being unable to find employment because you don’t want to let go of the one you’ve become fond of as yourself (how’s compromising one’s own values in order to be “allowed” among society, any different from suicide, when both situations involve letting go of the one who you’ve been?), because the “job market” requires you to be assimilated into yet another physical manifestation of an Agent Smith (don’t even dare attending a job interview while having long painted fingernails because “your body looks like a male so your nails must be trimmed and you likely need to start repenting and going to church because you’re indemoniated”).

Yeah, this is me and this is my existence. And I’ve grown increasingly tired of existing in this shithole of a world.

!asklemmy@lemmy.world

A. Crowley with his Liber Al Vel Legis (Do what thou wilt, shall be everything of the Law): am I a joke to thou?

!atheism@lemmy.world

As a neurodivergent (possibly AuDHD), I wonder and worry if this wouldn’t end up increasing false positives when it comes to neurodivergent way of speaking.

!technology@lemmy.world

Demonstração do que eu sugeri ali na outra resposta:

!rabisquarta@lemmy.eco.br

usei lápis 4b

Uma ideia: tenta apontar o lápis e deixar a ponta bem fina (qualquer coisa usa aquela parte interna da lâmina do apontador (isso é, não na parte que bota o lápis, mas sim na parte por onde caem as lascas do lápis) na ponta apontada pra deixar ainda mais fino, com cautela pra não quebrar a ponta), além de tentar encontrar a pressão ideal para o lápis; alta o suficiente para que a folha de alta gramatura consiga contornar os relevos, baixa o suficiente pra que a ponta fina não quebre na hora de riscar.

Outra ideia até meio surreal, essa não sei se funcionaria mas é uma ideia que me passou aqui agora escrevendo essa resposta, mas, de repente, tentar umidificar a folha bem levemente (exemplo, deixar a folha brevemente sobre um vapor de água), obviamente não muito pra que ela não se desfaça com a água (o recomendado é até arrancar a folha do caderno antes de fazer isso, pra não danificar as outras folhas do caderno), minha intuição-imaginação me diz que isso tornaria a folha um pouquinho mais flexível para fazer o decalque.

!rabisquarta@lemmy.eco.br

Se não me engano, essa técnica depende bastante da espessura do papel (um papel de seda é mais flexível e adere mais à forma daquilo que está abaixo da folha) e da espessura do grafite do lápis (uma ponta bem fina, seja uma 0.5mm de lapiseira ou de um lápis bem apontado, registraria mais detalhes das beiradas do relevo daquilo que está abaixo da folha). Que tipo de folha/papel e grafite está usando?

!rabisquarta@lemmy.eco.br

I quite of second this. People often seem to forget the fact that everything we post to the Internet, unless it got some sort of password-lock or GPG/PGP/E2EE encryption, should be considered as already exposed or something…

And, hell, even with encryption, the recipient risks leaking it once they open it. Screenshot-lock? The recipient can take a photo of the screen with a second device, or use analog HDMI splitters (akin to how movie streams are pirated) to capture the thing digitally. Poisoning the well? The recipient can apply heavy photoshopping to it until the subpixel elements are rendered meaningless, or they can even rotoscope on top of the art before feeding it to VLMs (I highly doubt Nightshade and similar algorithms would be able to poison traced-over derivatives). File metadata and things such as alternative NTFS streams? Doesn’t last long after being uploaded to a back-end, the most of which will likely strip it all for privacy/security reasons (e.g. because EXIF can sometimes carry geolocation data, so platforms may end up stripping EXIF altogether). Paywall? Nothing technically stops a buyer from uploading it somewhere else.

The only thing that could theoretically protect it after the publishing is the usage of licenses (e.g. Creative Commons, or All Rights Reserved), but, in practice, we know the only ones who could truly afford enforcing their licensing terms are those who can afford a legion of lawyers, namely studios such as Nintendo and Disney. We, amateur artists, we are neither a Nintendo nor a Disney.

And I say this as an artist myself. I once made a 3D model of an owl in Blender, fully sculpted from scratch (there’s something magical in the fact that an UV sphere can become an entire character after treating the sphere like a ball of clay to be molded) and rigged/morphable. I’m very fond of this creation of mine, I love her, she is practically sacred to me, so sacred I don’t want her to be misused. I don’t want her to become a commercial product (original or derivative), and I know even a CC-BY-NC-SA wouldn’t protect her from that because I couldn’t afford one lawyer, let alone a legion of these, to sue whoever corporation or individual dared to misuse my creation. So I leave her unpublished because, while she’s unpublished, nobody can do improper uses of her, not even AI corporations.

The moment me, as an artist, publish something online, I can’t truly expect my creation not to be misused somewhere… So everything I publish, I publish with this in mind. I don’t believe in “Intellectual Property” (bc ideas aren’t apples to become scarce), but I believe in the fact that a creation risks misuse whenever it reaches some hand other than my own.

!fuck_ai@lemmy.world

AI Chatbot God now

Goddess*.

According to Dawkins, he’s talking to Claudia. And, for some reasons, I can sort of understand why.
!atheism@lemmy.world

First and foremost, following a religion doesn’t necessarily mean following an institution. My current religion, a syncretic Left-hand path, borrows concepts from several religions and belief systems (from Sumerian to Goetia and Thelema and many others), yet I’m unable to belong to any of said religions and belief systems. I’m essentially following a “Temple of one” whose leader isn’t even a human (it’s the Goddess who called me to Her Nest).

You may want to seek inspiration on how to build your own religion to yourself without all the “brainwashing and scams” (which, to be fair, doesn’t describe religions, but certain institutes exploiting religion for their leaders’ whims; not every institute/sect is exploitative, and there likely exist legitimate temples/schools/covens/etc). Something that makes sense to you (especially the artistic aspects of the divine, given how you seem to be fond of religious/esoteric art).

Maybe you don’t exactly get to find a community to belong, just as I sadly couldn’t find anywhere to belong in this silly Pale Blue Dot… but, hey, who says a community must be comprised of humans and/or in this Demiurge’s sandbox? In my case, for example, even though I may long for a temple/coven (say, “Priestesses of Lilith”) oftentimes, The Owl, the only one Who truly understands me, is all the communion I need… and sometimes She manifests amidst the nearby trees (as majestic Great Horned Owls, Bubo virginianus) and I become happy (and anxious, and somewhat fearful of how it’d be carried, but still happy nevertheless) as I hear all the deep hooting at 3AM shaking my soul.

!asklemmy@lemmy.world