The only validation on that form is that you’ve entered a valid pubkey (npub or hex). What are you putting in on the front page?

The only validation on that form is that you’ve entered a valid pubkey (npub or hex). What are you putting in on the front page?

Hmmm odd - must be a Brave browser issue. Just test on Chrome, IE and Firefox and all 3 worked.

Could you try another browser for me?

Interesting perspective. We could debate what decentralised means, but I doubt we'd ever be able to find a universal definition -- it is too much of a spectrum. If your definition of decentralised is that there are no servers at all, then I guess you'd think only purely P2P protocols are, and not even nostr would qualify. From a total purity perspective, probably anything using DNS would be disqualified too.

My view on these protocols is as follows:

Usenet has essentially the same model as nostr. Yes, there are servers (relays), but people are free to choose which ones they use. They can post their messages to any of them, and those messages may get propagated to other servers. Each server can have its own message acceptance/forwarding policies, and choose which other servers to connect with.

IRC is also a decentralised network (the R stands for relay). An IRC network consists of many different servers relaying messages. Each server agrees roughly with the rules of the wider network, but is generally free to administer its server as it sees fit (including user bans, preventing relaying certain channels, etc). Sometimes server operators disagree, and this results in them leaving the network and establishing their own. That's why there are many different IRC networks, EFnet, IRCnet, DALnet, etc.

HTTP and email are both decentralised in the sense that you don't need to get anybody's permission to connect to the network, and there are no single points of failure.

Incorrect sir, we support fiat as well.

Thank you. Ukrainians are fighting against war criminals to protect their lives and homes, and to reclaim their stolen children. Their efforts not only keep the murderous dictator at bay but also safeguard their European neighbors. Supporting this fight is in the best interest of the West.

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Annoyingly, here in Australia I can only buy "fake" (LED) Edison globes now. No tungsten coils...

Should start a black market... :)

I'll have to check it out.

Bunnings and major supermarkets only carry the fake ones. Even my favourite shady Chinese discount store ran out.

TBF, this may be LED too: 25W doesn't sound like a big novelty incandescent

There's only one picture of my husband and I online in any English-language context, and it's not labeled as such but rather is buried in a Twitter thread and just kind of put in there as one of many photos, on purpose as an easter egg.

We like privacy, so we don't post many pictures.

But since I already showed my left ear on Nostr (likely for the first time ever in a public picture, funnily enough), I might as well give Nostr the exclusive to my husband as well. It's technically not new, which is why I can show it, but rather I can just be more specific about it. It's a picture of us from back in 2021 at Sahl Hasheesh in Egypt that we've had quietly online for three years. As readers of Broken Money know, his name is Mohamed Badran.

Mohamed is the editor of all of my long-form content, deals with the technical backend of the website, and inspires me to be better as a person every day.

Annoyingly, here in Australia I can only buy "fake" (LED) Edison globes now. No tungsten coils...

Should start a black market... :)

Yeah, its total BS government micromanaging of people's choices.

Incandescents are import-controlled contraband here. I've still gotten a few in, but some Chinese marketplaces have stopped selling them.

Let's say I listened to an insane person for 20 hours and now I want to replace all my light bulps with red ones that are super dim. Which ones should I get? #asknostr

what any sane person does when trouble happens, get the fuck out

otherwise you are effectively a combatant or will at minimum be used as a human shield by combatants

have fun in the war zone tho, i'm sure it will be exciting when the air raid sirens go off and when the building you are in caves in on you

Why does everything have to be slow? Win 95 on my 200 MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM could boot faster than my phone now.

I would say it would get dirty but it is already so clean on the ground in japan

I love how japan has little bag holders everywhere, even at starbucks. Bags do not touch the ground. So much more civilized.

Why?

#Bitcoin is a life boat.

By build an ark I mean:

Get a generator, some chickens and start building community ties so that you can buy black market gas with bitcoin.

By build an ark I mean:

Get a generator, some chickens and start building community ties so that you can buy black market gas with bitcoin.