https://news.itsfoss.com/europe-open-source-alternative-confluence/

#askNostr Wondering if anyone here acquired and tested the newest and greatest RaspberryPi 5... I finish testing with start9' startOS, which already works perfectly with the 4, now moving to CasaOS for some more serious fun. This toy is, thanks to the economics mechanics, becoming a decent device. I prefer miniPCs but this is getting already close in performance... Specs: - features a 64-bit quad-core Arm Cortex -A76 processor running at 2.4 GHz. - It includes an 800 MHz VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.2, and offers dual 4Kp60 HDMI display output with HDR support. - 16 GB of LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM, depending on the high end model. - 2 x USB 3.0 ports (supporting simultaneous 5 Gbps operation), - 2 x USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE+ support, and a 5V/5A DC power input via USB-C. - 40-pin GPIO header, - a Real-Time Clock (RTC) powered by an external battery, and an on-board power button. (Finally...) - supports PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals - 2 x 4-lane MIPI camera/display transceivers. - measures 85 x 56 mm

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lol, just noticed, created a new pair of accounts for testing. multiple DMs and messages are not going through. No deletion for conversations (hiding thm) looks promising, for sure will improve... currently needs work, wonder why to launch such a raw product. the lack of current support for Amber is a show stopper as well for many.

Altered Carbon, while reading it, couldn't stop the feeling that it was more a documentary than a SciFi book. Now reading Broken Angels, from the series of Richard Morgan, quite entertaining.

https://news.itsfoss.com/claudia/ Testing this now, Anyone that tested this? Thoughts? #askNostr #AI #LLM

From July 7th,*** Gemini can access Messages, Phone, WhatsApp and Utilities on Android *** – no matter if you had previously turned activity tracking on or off. And no, there was no informed consent from you, the user. Instead, Google is making the choice for you, a similar tactic Google used when allowing Gemini into your Gmail.

Act now, if your are using any of these services, change passwords and enable 2FA https://www.europesays.com/2178080/

The LLMs we are widely using now are being called AI for marketing purposes, but we do not have true AI at all, unknown how and when if ever will happen. How we will know when? In theory we could use the Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, evaluates a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human. While some AI systems have demonstrated impressive conversational abilities and can sometimes fool judges in limited contexts, these instances do not equate to genuine understanding or consciousness. The key aspect of the Turing Test is that the questions should be open-ended enough to allow for a range of responses, enabling the evaluator to assess the conversational abilities of both the machine and the human. The goal is to determine whether the evaluator can reliably distinguish between the two based on their responses. #AI #LLM

Easiest... you wrote Bitcoin, not LN Bitcoin... I will assume you are not very tech savvy but an enthusiasts, Base on that, here the suggestion: 1. Get yourself a Pure Server from Star9.com 2. Install Bitcoin Core from the market place 3. Install Dojo from the Users Market Place. (community registry). https://marketplace.start9.com/dojo 4. Install in your mobile Ashigaru (fork of Samurai Wallet, the legend lives) https://ashigaru.rs/ 5. When selecting to pay use ricochet and peer to peer coinjoins... That will be, IMO, the easiest to transact with decent privacy... Option B: Use Bitcoin L2 LN self custodial, meaning, run your own Node, create your own channels and maintain them, cumbersome, unreliable and a pain, but second best most private. Option C: Check Cake Wallet, at least has Silent Payments and PayJoin with Windows, Linux, Android and iOS option. The bad: it has go be a small wallet only to transact, no decent seed signer (hardware wallet) avaiable, they are working on it, but for now only Ledger, which is a no-no as a seed signer (worst possible reputation among hard core Bitcoiners)

Worth looking into, let's review and boost if we like it!

I suggest not to complicate it, use this free server, which is currently one is the most popular and backbone of Nostr: wss://relay.nostr.band/ and ignore the rest for now, there is a lot of pushing and noise from Nostr developers and Nostr pseudo influencers to move to paid relays, which is normal, money talks, their grants will not last for ever and they need to monetize, most of them have invested in paid relays, which ironically are all centralized censorship machines LOL! you can't make this up, but hey! you won't get gay porn bots or other nasty content which apparently is viral in Nostr now... just mute them and block them, easy, no need to get into a gestapo relay and pay for it. Once Nostr goes all tyrant (there will be signs... errr already there) most of us will go back to Mastodon or an alternative libertarian truly decentralized option,and for the daily non decentralized, X, currently is not an easy answer, but projects like Session Messenger could be the answer, monetization matters to maintain the network, so does privacy.

There are forks of NewPipe working just fine This one does a good job: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe/releases

https://news.itsfoss.com/sakura-ii-raspberry-pi-5/

You can't over complicate it at that age. The idea is that you set it up and they don't have to deal with balancing channels, which is complex for most adults already Here few suggestions: "Self custody" (no node control): 1. Pure Bitcoin Phoenix or Misty Beez 2. Hybrid with USDT Aqua Wallet 3. Minibits (ecash) you will save tons in fees and they get as well their personal address for a cheap price if you want to make your life easier. Non Custodial (considering the use, is not a bad choice for now): 1. Wallet of Satoshi