Do we really need Don Quixote's schwarmerei (excessive enthusiasm) for chivalry in the Bitcoin social layer? The knights followed their own unholy business and if they did so with virtue in their circles doesn't make it just for society.

Nostr is to Bitcoin what git is to the Linux kernel. It started as a necessary tool to develop the latter and now it is a thing of its own.

Not only are Github etc. centralized platforms but they also violate the UNIX philosophy of doing one thing and do it well. These platforms suffer from feature creep and nowadays they have become issue tracker, continues integration/deployment (CI/CD) platform etc as well. Therefore it is refreshing that there are activities with ngit to combine and connect existing simple tools (git, nostr) to work together seamlessly.

"Perhaps it’s no surprise that Switzerland remained one of the freest countries throughout Covid because of this more localized governance model. There was much less room and tolerance for central government decree" from "Parallel: The Bitcoin Social Layer" by Brian De Mint. Unfortunately this was not true at the end of the Covid scam. The mandates were centrally planned and applied to all cantons and one could say that the federal system died with Covid. The states in the US have far more freedom in such concerns than the cantons in Switzerland nowadays.

As euphemism has to be considered clownish as well (aka disguise ugly things in nice words) you consequently find some some explicit language in "Bitcoin: The Inverse of Clown World" by @Knut Svanholm ∞/21M and @Luke de Wolf

Inconsistency in the user interface on GNU/Linux is my daily visual reminder that there is a trade-off between privacy & security versus beauty & convenience.

The progression from "Auctoritas, non veritas facit legem" into "Veritas, non auctoritas facit legem" as mentioned in Cryptosovereignty by Erik Cason is quite a profound idea.

Unfortunately upgrading an existing Ubuntu installation to 24.04 has been rather a bumpy road and ended up for me several times in a rescue shell. The UI improvements on the other hand are quite nice.

Each shortcut introduced in your application to save some development time today has to be repaid manifold in the future during the maintenance phase.

After seven years of its introduction the Java Platform Module System (JPMS) is still not yet fully adopted in the Java ecosystem. Migrations take a long time and after the migration is before the next migration I guess.