Good to know. I will stick with the browser.
The big win-win for governments and vendors is to criminalize and enforce.
The new governance playback seems to be criminalize, enforce, and then lock down.
Age verification seems to be a super efficient way to criminalize an entire population.
The last few months I've gone down the reading rabbit hole of consciousness and quantum theory.
Surprisingly, there are some simple fundamentals, not to understand everything, but to apply practically.
This is the stuff I am reflecting on and trying to usefully apply to #nostr
Forgive me as I try to sort this out with posts and using LLMs to give me better words to describe.
More to come....
Why Amazon is Quietly Abandoning the Cloud https://techpreneurr.medium.com/why-amazon-is-quietly-abandoning-the-cloud-11a6691d5967
Zap test, please stand by
The hidden superpower of Nostr lies in its foundational guarantee that every event and every identity is cryptographically unique and verifiable. Each event is signed by a distinct public key and hashed into a unique event ID, making it tamper-proof and traceable. These elements become facts in a strict, technical sense—provable statements of authorship and content that exist without ambiguity. This cryptographic grounding creates a secure substrate on which social information—the human processes of interpreting, validating, and constructing truth—can flourish. Because there are no opaque intermediaries, centralized authorities, or invisible actors able to alter or obscure the underlying facts, Nostr enables truth to emerge through transparent social negotiation rather than hidden manipulation. In this way, it provides the structural integrity for bottom-up trust to be built without fear of systemic deception.
In the Nostr protocol, every event is a cryptographically signed message with a unique identifier, its event ID, derived from the event’s content and metadata. This event ID ensures that each event is a distinct and immutable fact within the system: a verifiable datum that exists independently of any interpretation or context.
However, the truth or meaning of that event cannot be fully resolved within Nostr itself. Whether a particular event is deemed credible, relevant, or aligned with reality depends on social information—the shared human understanding, trust relationships, reputational assessments, and contextual cues that exist outside the protocol.
In this way, Nostr records facts in a cryptographic sense, but the interpretation and truth-value of those facts are mediated by social processes external to the technical system.
Social information can be defined as:
Information about subjective experience—such as thoughts, intentions, emotions, and shared meaning—that arises through human interaction and exists independently of any formal technical system, data protocol, or computational process. It is embedded in social contexts, shaped by cultural norms, interpersonal relationships, and lived experience, and often transmitted through informal channels such as conversation, gesture, or shared understanding.
This definition distinguishes social information from machine-readable or protocol-bound data by emphasizing its origin in human subjectivity and its reliance on social and cultural context rather than technical encoding.
The Post Quantum Migration of Blockchain https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-post-quantum-migration-of-blockchain-7858601054a7
I'm calling it VIM now.
‘ageless app’ has new meaning now…
New NIST Digital Identity Guidelines just dropped.
I experienced FOMO when nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s did a demo of Nostr Wallet Connect, so here is mine. Blink (Android) on the left, Alby Go (iOS) on the right, #nostr #safebox completely invisible in the background.
https://video.nostr.build/44e2ac4f154bd31388a8db240b8c7580106774739a161cb5adfcdfe64b08717a.mp4
Excited to see when it comes. NWC rocks!
Oh, very cool! When will it be available in the Damus client? I have everything working with Alby Go, so this should work immediately in Damus with #nostr #safebox when the update is pushed.
I just see this as more opportunity for open permissionless private payment networks
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/visa-expands-stablecoin-settlement-options/
Yeah, digging int DNS, DNSSEC, OAUTH, and many more - the key foundation for everything is binding a name to a resource for the purposes of expressing a title or conveying for trade.
Behold, the Trustless Interop Model (TIM). So good, I named it after myself.
So the offending moves are: export to clipboard using excalidraw, upload from clipboard using coracle. I will avoid this in future.
All strategies boil down to whether you want to trick or trade.
My #nostr vibes
A re-post of an earlier post that seemed to have knocked out all of the nostr clients due to an errant image upload.
Enjoy (if you can)!
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I've had many ask me - what is #nostr #safebox. Rather than the glib answer - 'it can be anything you want it to be' I decided to be more specific.
Look at the diagram - Nostr Safebox is that fuzzy hatched box, cutting across several components. The 'guts' is a component called 'Acorn' that does all the heavy lifting. It is never intended to see the light of day. At the top, you are seeing a glimmer of the user apps. First is the safebox cli app, the command line app which I built to test the core functionality, Second is the web app, which was initially built to test out all the async capabilities. And third, the platform apps (first up is a point-of-sale app) which will interface via Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC).
This is still a journey of discovery, and a hot mess of features and implementation. But the vision is becoming very clear - Nostr Safebox is about PROTECTING YOUR FUNDS AND RECORDS, but making them available for everyday use.
The beauty of nostr is that I can build this WITHOUT PERMISSION. I can follow my convictions, and maybe one day, it will be useful. In the meantime, I am having a helluva lot of fun.
For those of you who might not be able to see via the link due to censorship, here’s the OG clip.
#grownostr
https://blossom.primal.net/6c15f7e075325331081d965707b7e6e5315360f5fda2878a77b544844239b6d9.mov
Another great example of "Rules for thee, not for me"
I remember the early days of the internet when the main problem was the ‘Last Mile Problem’ - how to get high speed internet to phones and off dial-up modems. That problem was effectively solved with ADSL modems that enabled high- speed (1 Mbps, at the time) to run over the existing copper wire and freeing up the family phone.
Then the internet went BOOM!
Now we have a similar dynamic with payments. We have the equivalent of the internet (bitcoin/lightning/nostr/cashu) - we now need to focus on the ‘last mile’ so the payment rails can go BOOM! and open a whole new wave of innovation.
Stablecoin issuers feel like the wave of ISPs of the late 90s. They made dial-up and access to the internet easy. But when the telcos started to eat the ISP business and roll out ADSL modems, they withered away (remember AOL?)
I predict the same fate as the stablecoin issuers - hot for now, but they will wither away once global infrastructure providers get into the mix with open protocols. I don’t now how this will play out, but I see the global payment rail stack to be: bitcoin/lightning/nostr/cashu->local fiat.
Term of the day: “neurological override”
“Cyborg Bees Are Here: Scientists Achieve Mind Control with World’s Lightest Brain Chip”
Scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest brain chip designed for insects, weighing only 74 milligrams—lighter than the nectar loads bees typically carry. This groundbreaking device enables direct mind control of honeybees by sending electrical signals into their brains through three microscopic needles. Once attached to a bee’s back, the chip allows researchers to command the insect’s flight path with remarkable precision—achieving directional control accuracy rates of up to 90 percent during testing.
Inspired in part by the parasitic fungus cordyceps—which hijacks insect behavior in the wild—this new chip functions like a synthetic version of nature’s own neurological override. The technology mimics the fungus’s eerie control but replaces biology with ultra-thin printed circuits, flexible enough to move with the insect’s body and light enough to avoid impeding flight.
The researchers, led by Professor Zhao Jieliang, believe their “cyborg bees” could have a wide range of real-world applications, from military reconnaissance missions in hostile terrain to post-disaster search-and-rescue operations in areas too dangerous or inaccessible for human crews or machines. Previous cyborg insect experiments used heavier chips that quickly exhausted the animals. But the Beijing team’s ultra-light design could allow longer missions with less fatigue.
There are still challenges ahead: bees currently require wired power to function, and roaches controlled with similar chips were only able to handle a limited number of commands before tiring. Battery weight remains a key obstacle. Still, the breakthrough represents a major step in the field of insect-machine hybrid robotics. If refined further, fleets of mind-controlled insects could soon serve as intelligent, biologically integrated tools in both civilian and defense operations.
“Information wants to be free.” - Internet
“People should have their own identity” - Nostr
“Money should be permissionless” - Bitcoin
Keep your thumb on the Four Horsemen of the Info-Pocalypse.
Some good detail and background on OAuth 2.1.
I am researching because I believe we can do something totally better with #nostr
Separate the App Store from the State.
Well, in the EU, it's too late.
An image that I pasted from memory. It looked like the image data was dumped in twice, so I removed the second one before posting. Then all hell broke loose. I think coracle.social ended up dumping the raw binary data into the content. I’d try to replicate, but I don’t want to take nostr down again.
invisible == ungovernable
Yo, nostr:npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 is there a safe way to add the #safebox wallet to the bio?
#Asknostr
Still in development. I hope to have something for pilot in early 2026.
Bitcoin enables superliquidity.
Agency = Intention + Intelligence