Elephant Gym is a great Math Rock band if you're into soothing, nostalgic-type music.

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This cartoonish style graphics that a lot of these companies use is starting to grate on me. It's as if they're treating their customers as kindergarten students.

Yes, with the current car, I agree. I hope the AM engineers and designers can extract more out of the AMR23 than the RB can with the RB19 in the coming months. There's nothing sweeter than seeing the AMR23 creep closer and closer to the RB19 and have ALO and VER duke it out on track.

Hopium, I know. But it's always nice to root for the underdog especially one that came from dead last last season.

I don't think there's a need lol. AM is in a good path. I'd rather see ALO fight hard for his 33rd win rather than be handed out to him because VER and/or PER crashed out.

I don't think it has to come to that. It looks like VER and ALO has a ton of respect for each other's racecraft. If the AM gets it right and produces a car with race winning pace I think we'll be treated to a weekend with great and hardline racing.

It is. Quite fun to watch as well.

Still a few weeks before Baku.

That's interesting. I've looked around and it looks like they're still using twitter for user verification. I hope they migrate to nostr soon.

It is. It's a bit anachronistic to run a single underpowered UNIX-like box in an age of cheap electronics and high network bandwidth.

It's all fun though. I find it nice to see UNIX-likes being used for their original purpose.

Oh yes, tilde communities are a kind of spiritual successor to the single machine UNIX communities of the 70s and 80s. I'm really glad that you've linked to them.

Hey, thanks for the reply.

It's mostly to do with UNIX already containing utilities and systems that facilitate collaboration between different local users. For example, the ACL system of the OS allows other people to access files based on groups and the mail(1) and write(1) programs allow for both asynchronous and synchronous communication.

I think Dennis Ritchie also talked about this in a paper ages ago [1]. But the gist of it is that one of the primary motivations for making UNIX the way it is is to also "create a system where a fellowship could form."

Of course, we're talking about old minicomputers here in the 1970s where it's all local.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1984.tb00054.x

Tigervnc.

I appreciate clean web addresses. You don't find them often, but I appreciate it when I see one.

Lagrange is a beautiful "small net" browser that's available in both desktop and mobile platforms.

It supports a lot of the smaller text heavy protocols such as gopher, gemini, finger and spartan.

If you're interested in learning more about the small net, you can check out Lagrange on its website at:

https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/

I think a UNIX box is the original digital social network.

Thanks for looking it up. I wasn't able to find anything on my end either.

Are there any online bookstores that sell both old and new books that also accept bitcoin?

It's probably possible to run an Yggdrasil-only Nostr relay as long as you setup an AAAA record and the proper reverse proxy on your webserver. This should probably also work on onion services.

That could make hosting a Nostr relay more reliable and free for a lot of people.

I've been mulling over running a private USENET hierarchy. I've looked around and it seems that it might be a little complicated, but let's see.

Great post. Just my two sats:

> They are simultaneously an implementation detail that users don't understand and don't want to deal with, and the very soul of Nostr.

I think this is one of the biggest issues with differentiating relays. I think a lot of people who use Nostr still can't quite grasp how relays work and they're still approach it in a "single master" model.

It would probably help if: (1) relays become a little more trivial to run and (2) introduce relays as distinct content hubs rather than some vague "server that sends messages."

But yeah, I agree. It's a hard problem to solve.