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Merry Christmas everyone. Taking the opportunity of some free time to follow my songs advice. If You Build It - BTC Beats on YouTube.

Sometimes I do things that I didn’t think I could do, but I did them. That feeling is amazing.

Newest song up on wavlake. Could this be the biggest hit so far??

https://wavlake.com/album/e5278cde-2530-484f-be8d-6b595603f781

No stream for nostr:nprofile1qqs8cajagp7n48275ytuhzuxn93g2crc0lqgfgx8dta2gjdlh5fpmpqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhx6mmnw3ezuur4vghskpl32m tonight I believe , so working on a song for next week. Correct me if mistaken!

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Doing well with the AI songs. 4 days at number 2 on wavlake, just can’t get that extra step. Yet….

Watching nostr:nprofile1qqs8cajagp7n48275ytuhzuxn93g2crc0lqgfgx8dta2gjdlh5fpmpqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tc93rgwk talking about micropayments to help cleanup the internet and send value. Seems like a good idea, gonna have to try out the 1 sat payments I guess.

Replying to Avatar Gigi

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

Just about ready to self host everything too. I have a lot to learn about it though.

A song for the joke.

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https://suno.com/s/3sgn1HTR1uS3sIVv

Yes. And every other person.