They actually gave you a boxed set of Windows 7 Ultimate, *and* signed by Steve Ballmer himself just for being a beta tester? Must have been some serious, potentially mission critical beta testing to score that.

Thinking about writing a suite of quick and dirty shell scripts that interact with Nostr like standard Unix/Linux commands, when I get some free time.

Okay, so one thing I'm certain the #plebstr devs are working on is search, because while the basic interface for it is already fleshed out, it isn't returning any real results. For now I gotta use Coracle or Iris for search.

I think there should be a NIP to add note translation to and from Morse code.

GM everyone. On my way to work, and checking out #plebstr. Even though it's still a WIP like Primal, it's looking like a pretty solid client.

Despite the fact that I currently do not have a laptop 😢, I've been able to keep hacking away with the #Termux environment on my Android. With it, I've been able to run various Linux distros via proot and qemu, and even run #FreeDOS for some retro nostalgia. But I wanna do something really crazy with it, like see if I can compile a minimal Linux system and run it, like this old project of mine I want to revive: https://github.com/antoniusmisfit/shoebox-linux

Red Hat Linux 8 was my first. 6 disc boxed set(3 install CDs, 3 source CDs) bought from the local Staples for $40 USD. Never went back to Windows since.

I can see the Biden admin's logic in this. Heaven forbid if the candle does start a fire, it doesn't matter if it's in a chapel "far removed from medical supplies and patients" if the chapel is still within the main hospital grounds, then at a minimum the area near the chapel would have to be evacuated, and end result could impair the hospital's ability to fully serve patients until repairs are complete.

Yeah, I feel like login/logout strangely might have not been a first priority in designing Primal. I tried requesting the "desktop site", rotating to horizontal orientation, and zooming in and out to no avail. Maybe there is a login but the Primal devs won't publicly activate it until the client is fleshed out enough to their taste?

Okay, so I'm hearing people rave on about the #Primal web client. I head on over to primal.net on my phone, and...

I understand that it's still a WIP, but where the heck is the way to login to it?

Well, I figured out where the zap came from, and it was for recommending w3schools.com's free online tutorial on HTML5. Of course, they also have great tutorials on JS and several other programming languages, and even server side stuff. It really is a great resource for learning.

A small reflection i just had when thinking about what happens when a Nostr user(user1) posts a note and it writes to multiple relays simultaneously, and when another user(user2) browses user1's notes stored on those relays.

Isn't this in a sense like a decentralized and distributed RAID array?

I guess it's official, then: PS/2 ports are "retro tech" now.

I guess you'll need a PS/2 adapter, then. They should be cheap enough to get online.

I'm kind of the opinion that identity verification doesn't make much sense in a highly pseudonymous network like Nostr. But I guess there's certain cases where linking an online identity would be beneficial.

Over on the birdsite, WordPress has officially dropped Twitter from its JetPack extension due to Musk's ludicrous API price hikes, *and* Musk announced that Twitter will allow publishers to directly charge Twitter users to read news articles directly from Twitter.

He's literally banking on Twitter's inertia to keep users in his increasingly repressive walled garden. He'll lose that bet hard.

The problem of social media identity verification doesn't really make much sense in a system explicitly designed for pseudoanonymity, like Nostr.

Okay, first I tried Amethyst, then Coracle, and right now I'm on Iris on my Android, and I'm struggling to find the logout option, lol. Can someone help me out with that?

Ah Amway, one of the classic MLM scams. Lots of decent people fell for it too. You wised up, and that's something to be proud of. Years ago, a co-worker tried to pitch "Pre-Paid Legal Services"(now known as LegalShield) to me during a lunch break. The first video made it sound like a halfway decent product, but when he showed the second video which pitched downline recruitment hard, I knew it was an MLM scam and just said "Nope".

Coracle is pretty nice as a web client.