I'd prefer having small blocks and run my own pruned and archival nodes instead of cheaper fees. The fee market will always adjust based on demand but the larger blocks can potentially make it harder for me to run my own node.
Testing the NIP-05 verification toggle.
Okay, so I think my Nostr relay is now working properly. It's a bit janky but it'll gonna do.
I like it. It's a different approach to computing and they're trying really hard to keep things as simple as possible. It can be a bit opaque at times but I'd say just hop on and play around the system.
I think it's one of the few software projects out there that invites you to mess with it and break things. So it's also great if you're into programming and want to make stuff for yourself.
I know you posted this note more than a year ago, so I hope you've tried it on your own accord.
o/
Apparently it's a lot more trickier to do this. Maybe I'll just spin up a new stripped down VM and use that instead.
I'll just redeploy a local Nostr relay on my humble virtual server and call it a day for this.
I just redid my landing webpage. It's been a while since I did something like this, and I'm partly glad that I'm running this VM on my actual hardware instead of having to rent a space on someone's PC.
Alright, I just reinstated my old website to a new machine. Funny since I lost the original HTML for it so I had to use the Web Archive to get my single page static site again.
I think that this can really help make verification easy and free to a lot of people. I mostly did this because I find renting a DO box wasteful just for a simple file check.
It seems that you can do NIP-05 verification using Tailscale Funnel.
If you're inclined, you can check out their overview to see if it's for you.
Urbit-native Lightning
https://blog.tirrel.io/blog/urbit-native-lightning-network nostr:note1f4acdmflvvsmspf8jrkzjp6e595gqcpm03j95p079wuwe5p87ytsn7wa9k
Interesting. I think I've watched the Assembly presentation for this. I will check this out.
It's not built on Ethereum. They're just using it to associate a Galaxy, Star, and Planet to a unique public key (in this case an Ethereum address). Those aren't just "tiers of cloud hosting," they're uniquely identifiable points that facilitates P2P comms (peer discovery and routing) inside the network.
It's annoying that they've built their PKI on Ethereum. I don't like it as well. If it's possible to move it on Bitcoin I'll be one of the first people to advocate for it.
Urbit is a worthy piece of tech in itself and it's merits shouldn't be understated just because its public key infrastructure is on Ethereum.
Urbit massively simplifies the entire dance of spinning up a VM, installing n+1 packages, and running n+1 Docker containers. It's literally a VM that you can run anywhere that has its entire communications and publishing stack built-in.
You should really read the overview before saying anything about it. It just makes you look massively uninformed.
I think it would benefit you if you read a little bit more about it. π
Net negative. I have a crippling YouTube addiction and I'm trying to cut down on consuming those along with any "social media"-like website.
This is probably one of the handful of times this year that I will check Nostr.
Hello, world!
Testing again.
Testing.
RETEKESS V115.
It's a good, all-in-one pocket radio that is light and easy to use. It can also do shortwave similar to the TECSUN 9012 which makes it really nice if you're into that. It also has a built in microphone which can record decent audio as well as the ability to record radio programs straight to the SD card.
A small, handy device. It's cheap too. The only downside that I see is that it's just not pleasant to go through the bands. It doesn't have a scroll wheel which I think is a shame. But hey, it works and cheap.
I've been dabbling on a lot of RHEL lately. Overall, it's quite nice to use. It's not exactly minimal and compact like OpenBSD but for stuff that needs to run Linux, it's pretty good.
TECSUN R9012.
This is one of the best "bang for buck" portable radios that you can get today. It doesn't have all the fancy features that some of its contemporaries have but it makes up for it by only using 2 AA batteries.
Since it's as basic as radios go, it also means that any battery that you put in it will go a long way. I've been running my R9012 on a couple of cheap batteries and it's still perfectly fine after a month of intermittent running.
Damn. It costs $700,000 a day to keep ChatGPT running
Could be higher now because this figure was based on GPT 3
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-costs-openai-every-day
I wonder how much energy that LLM is consuming on a daily basis. π€
Lol. If this is true, we'll witness a complete 180 from the Bitcoin deniers soon.
I think portable radios are one of the most underrated pieces of technology today. It doesn't require an internet connection to "get news and content" and most entry-level ones are incredibly cheap.
I personally think that it's a good idea to atleast have a small portable radio on hand at all times.
There's nothing more drab and soul-crushing than "enforced fun."
I find it easier to read black text on a white background than white text on a black background. Maybe I'm too used to reading words on a sheet of paper.
Yes. Relays are small, individual island content. Though there are some relays that try to link content to and from other relays, the protocol spec explicitly stated that relays shouldn't talk to each other.
Nostr is a heavy client, thin server type of thing. The relays are just that, relays. They store notes and send it back to anyone who requests it.
Yeah, I think docker has its perks. It makes it easy to deploy stuff and all. It's also great if you are running a VPS with multiple services and you don't want to deal with those services conflicting with each other.
That said, I just think that a relay that's designed for small groups should be as simple and straightforward as possible. Not relying on docker for deployment could reduce the maintenance overhead and headaches while troubleshooting.
There are bunch of relays out there but most of them are in the very early stages of development. I think most relays use either one of the three: nostr-rs-relay, strfry or nostream.