Someone should organize a Nostr meetup in Da Nang:

This is a neat idea:

https://listenlater.net/

Could probably be replicated with ecash payments to a Nostr AI service for processing, then storing the files (incl. an updated RSS document) on a Blossom server or similar.

Because the temperature of water freezing is what affects most life on Earth, so it's the best reference point for our puny brains.

They're world-class in saying No!

For someone without any experience in AI image generation, what are currently the best options for generating decorative illustrations (e.g. of mascot animals) with transparent backgrounds, and perhaps even in SVG format, for use on websites and in apps?

Yes and yes.

Testing a ZapWatcher at bitcoin++. Plz zap.

Her side is that of "democracy", but they didn't let anyone in the EU vote for this, of course. 🤡

Ask Apple why they don't allow 3rd party access to competing NFC wallets.

Would be nice for it to state that it requires access to camera and mic before the payment, not after.

When an organization as anti-democratic as the EU Commission talks about Saving Our Democracy™, you immediately know that that's not the intention.

Your second sentence changes the context for the first. Maybe you didn't intend that.

Are you willfully ignoring core working on making the kernel usable for alternative node implementations?

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595

We have people claiming that Luke is the most important bitcoin dev. I think that's enough.

sshuttle is so good

I wish they would finally bring it on.

More importantly, merchants should always add the ~3% (or, depending on their location and risk profile, up to 9%) card fees on top of the final price if someone wants to pay with a card. People think it's all free, and most aren't even aware that the merchant pays for it.

This is hilarious, because the TSA does not verify your identity, as he claims. It's actually an example for the kind of security checks that Google already has in place.

Also, "to create a trusted ecosystem, that ... developers can trust"? 😂

How?

Dear Nostr,

Good morning.

GN

Btw, that's not just Apple (but they invented the protocol). Every decent CalDAV client supports those colors.

Works! And it's much quicker and more concise than the other video. 👌

And same as then, they can't stop (or even find) all presses, so they mostly attack the indexes. DNS blocking for example.

Are we back at equating the copying of data with real theft that physically removes objects so they're not available to the owner anymore?

Or your judgement is flawed.

Did a little Nostr talk at a small bitcoin meetup with mostly non-technical users last night, as they asked for people to talk about stuff they're building with it.

The idea was for builders to talk about their projects. But instead, I had to give a general Nostr 101 talk, because only about a quarter of people had even heard about Nostr before, virtually nobody used it regularly, and there was also no other speaker present.

Observations:

* People who were aware of Nostr were also much more interested than the others. They mostly had the usual questions:

** What about spam?

** It feels like Nostr has lost all traction (following users who aren't posting anymore)

** Is it possible to get an endless stream of interesting posts? ("I'm used to doom-scrolling")

** How many relays are there?

** How difficult is it to run your own relay?

** What if one company (e.g., Primal) gets to "control Nostr" through market share?

* And a couple of new ones for me:

** Can I spam people's inboxes for profit (i.e. mine relays for user interests, then target users with DMs)?

** Has someone built a DEX order book on Nostr yet?

Generally speaking, Nostr was still perceived as social media only. Which makes sense, because the least experimental clients are focused on micro-blogging, of course. I did explain the Other Stuff, and also demo'd my blogging software, but the questions and interest were almost all about the social media use case.

Most of the evening felt a bit like talking about the fediverse in 2018 or so. Now you just point to Meta having a Fediverse timeline in Threads, and there's simply no question that the protocol is useful to enough people that a company of that size would add it to their product. It also went through the same waves of adoption, where people brought a lot of followers to the protocol, only to then stop posting and make the place feel empty for those followers. And with every wave of adoption, more people stay and make it more interesting for the next wave.