I would really like to check this out further. I really love my kindle but hate the centralization. Is this Project Alexandria?
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Yes, and I'm all in on making a nostr based compostable document system. Currently almost finished with an auth flow to make postman and old/low spec ePaper browsers work with private/paid document relays.
Yeah, it's humming along.
We're putting all the books onto relays and then people can read them over websockets, or from any device that has http.
Need HTTP for e-paper because they can't use websockets, so Mleku has been finaggling that onto his Realy relay.
The only thing that works with e-paper, so far is Njump because it's static pages. Which is annoying, for chatting, but fine for something that rarely changes, like a book or research papers.
If you have an e-paper reader, then you can read these on it, for example. The first is Markdown (long-form article), the second is Asciidoc (Wiki page).
Just open the browser on the reader. You'll have to email yourself the hyperlink, or something, tho. 😅
With Alexandria, you'll have the advantage of typable links and a search bar and stuff like that.
i have to lol at the autocorrect rewriting my words to "compostable" lol, no, "composable" lol what the fuck google
anyway, i'm going slow on this stuff currently, by my standards
i wish i could just stop doing the fiat mining and focus on this because it takes me quite some time to recontextualie on both tasks and i frankly hate the shitcoin gaming project
the people i work with are decent tho
I've been really underwhelmed at the "go fast" development, I've seen on here.
Sometimes, the best way to build is to just go to sleep and work on it two days later.
Also, impossible to coordinate such a big team, if you just hack ahead, at record speed. Especially, since we're in different time zones.
The need to work really fast is condemning Nostr devs to be permanent Lone Wolves.
well, i'm dedicated to making the actual decentralised business use case with nostr happen
and i'm very responsive to the specifications of what that entails, and probably i could say that some of the reason why i'm going a bit slow is because people literally don't seem to get it and they are running off ahead to chase after some new rainbow far beyond the horizon
and i think this is a really big problem for nostr, but it's not just nostr, the whole society is losing its bearings
my fiat mine gig is ok, i'm going to deliver what they need and they are getting good consultation about what is practical, but really, the entire "crypto" scene is completely off the map also, this whole AI shit meanwhile almost nobody hardly can even understand
like, i literally today asked the middleware/smart contract dev for a simple thing - to have their database contain a simple field that tells me the newest update of a whole user's profile data, just the newest of all of the pieces
it was like, "omg i can't understand why you need to have a replica of the data" and i tried to explain to them that to do an analysis of the entire userbase comparing them all to each other is an (N-1)N number of operations, it's like, gah, do you know what a "square" is, you know, in mathematics?
yeah, that's the slope of the incline towards the hell we are at, at this moment, literally people think you can't have a distributed system without even two copies of a database
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really? they think that the replication probem is solved?
:cry:
We're actually building really fast. It just doesn't seem like it because the project is so gigantic and covers n interfaces, clients, protocols, relays, servers, programming languages, etc.
#Alexandria is the biggest Nostr project, by far, both in team size and scope and possible use cases. With the smallest budget. 🫣
Just hard to get the people holding the big pots of money to care, so we're sort of stuck passing around the hat. 😅 We aren't really putting more focus on funding until after Gutenberg, tho. Need the MVP and the PoCs, to really sell it. It's still too abstract. We try to explain what we're building and everyone is just like, Why don't you just add zaps to PDFs? 🤔
yeah, i literally have downgraded my fiat gig to half time because i know this is important and i know that it's going nowhere unless we focus on the key things needed to implement
and i totally feel like i'm drowning in it even still
i don't think anyone is running my relay apart from me at this point, or they sure aren't telling me
and those who are using it are saying ... what did you say nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpxamhxue69uhkzer0wf5kuemrv9exg6twv9krztnvde3xjarn9e3k7mf0dehhxarjwfjkccte9a6x2um594ex2mrp0yq3zamnwvaz7tmzdahkwetj9ec8yme0qy2hwumn8ghj7cnzvgh8xctww3hhxtnvdakz7qggwaehxw309uhz7qpql5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqsgexrsx "fastest relay"?
would be nice if some more people would poke it and see. because i am pretty sure it is the fastest. codec is almost 2x faster and the database is atleast 5x faster than any other relay on nostr
Yeah, it's definitely the fastest one. Great for uploading books.