Nostr users love to hate algorithms. π
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It's a shame. I fully support having a chronological timeline by default, but even the ones I was building help me not missing the good things so often π
I'm an algorithm enjoyer. I follow only active npubs and am followed by a bunch of active npubs, and my feed and replies would be a circus without advanced curation algos.
People be like, "I use Nostr without algos by being anon, ignoring almost everyone else, and only posting boring stuff nobody reads."
Okay. That is also a plan. LOL
I guess they're just doing "media", instead of "social media". They could also just get a journal and write stuff down on paper. Same feels. No loss.
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Besides curation on the filter tab, this shows popular recent notes by either people you follow or for everyone. Also here I'm planning to add more algos, e.g for specific topics.
Oh, I haven't tried that one, thanks!
Also β¦ I might call on your services as my onboarding client matures π
nostr users hate sophistry
i had a really serious grumpy outburst at my colleague last night related to the sophistic documentation of the Internet Computer Protocol's authentication systems
there is a file that their blockchain client, used to deploy smart contracts, creates on your disk, that is a .pem.encrypted file
they say "something something under the hood something our purposes something something"
which is complete bullshit, and if the code of this thing is open source then i can go and find out exactly how it gets there
i'm not gonna waste my time reading their code, i'm just gonna impute the logical conclusion: they send a cookie, that they encrypt so the contents cannot be read by you if your dev machine is breached, and that it's a COOKIE
the way the text reads in the documentation, makes it sound like it's authentication
and apparently, it seems that if you do leak that file, someone else can take control of the resource you deployed (the smart contract) and spend all the assets tied to that resource on your behalf
which is AWFUL security and a classic example of the kind of shitcoin sophistry that grinds my gears so bad i yell at my colleague for not getting it that they are LYING and pretending that's ok
it's not ok, this kind of behaviour is disgusting, and it just shows you some of the flaws underlying the psychology of some parts of the dev community, who think they are so clever they can gloss over critical security mechanisms and that everyone is just gonna be like the guard soldier being told "these are not the droids you are looking for" no, these are the droids, and you bitches are trying to trick me
suffice it to say, the entire purpose of my meeting with said colleague was precisely to add code to the smart contract that functions to give total control to the deployer to add administrators and whitelisted users, and block all other access
They create an encrypted file using your data, that you can't decrypt? So, with a foreign key?
"for their own purposes" and "for authentication" so it's a fucking cookie, obviously, but why the fuck do you obfuscate the obvious fact to anyone who understands cryptography and security???
That is odd, you're right.
Gossip encrypts your nsec, so that you can login with a password, but it tells you it's doing it and shows you how and where it is stored.
