#meme #memes

Well, good for you.

Now let's look at how 99.9% of the other users are doing.

Perhaps it would be better to focus on that audience, asking them to use something with less potential for being bought by some intelligence agency that throws money at them rather than going through all those hops that only 0.01% of users are able to achieve (and this is a generous percentage value).

you see, there is a problem, i don't like cbor after dealing with it in my work with bluesky

so why do you love it so much? why do you prefer it compared to msgpack or protobuf or flatbuffers or capnproto?

keep in mind this needs to connect together apps written in go, rust, javascript, java, c, c++ and maybe at least reasonable support for python and c#

from what i've seen, and it's been a while since i've looked that close, protobuf was the most well and fully-supported across all of these languages

personally, i would want to use flatbuffers, and currently the Go version of this protocol encoding is shitty, but i could imagine myself reworking it in a month or two into something that is really natural to use with Go, because i have already in fact written an on-demand protocol buffer encoder, twice, in fact, simple TLV thing that was based on ad-hoc dynamic interface array message descriptors

messagepack would work fine I think. biggest gains would be parsing efficiency and battery life gains. decoding json sucks and is slow.

nostrdb has optimizations to skip parsing altogether when it doesn’t need to (stops parsing at the id field if we already have the note). The performance boost there is nice. messagepack or some other format would be another boost.

The *ideal* way would be something like flatbuffers, where you could just memcpy the note into your db… but is more complex.

Relays should provide both JSON and Binary options.

JSON only is extremely wasteful for bandwidth constraint clients.

You won't change my mind.

SimpleX is private only now while small, and that is changing now that they have VC funding. The fact is that you are using their servers and their client, therefore trusting but not verifying that communications are truly private.

There is really no guarantee that the server you are trusting is running the same code as available on github.

Oddly enough nostr is more private, since there exist so many server implementations and hundreds of servers to choose from. Gets difficult to pin IP address and messages are no possible to decrypt since too many separate tools are involved.

This has to be the most beautiful venue I've ever seen a Bitcoin conference held in. It's the historic stock exchange in Antwerp, Belgium.

Anyone else absolutely love flea markets?

I'm surprised I didn't get stopped at security with my meshtastic, bitaxe, and coldcard q

then you've never lived

The IMF is one of the tools used by the U.S. and the Fed to subjugate the states to the dollar.

nostr:note1c8eqqf63rxsdfrmfg22u2fhn547lxt0ht4ludk55fc789tksf6hql9hvuc

Chances would be greater for real world data. It's not perfectly random. Server could record the most common byte sequences and report those.

I scrolled down your timeline and it has zero or a few likes per post. There are no Nostr plebs listening to you.

It’s actually kind of sad. Just come back into realistic dialogue with the rest of us rather than being a cliche bot.

I see a lot of personal bias on Nostr but not a lot of systemic intentional bias-fueled posts written purposely to manipulate. It’s not big enough for people to wake up and ask how they can inject the most misinformation as possible into a sentence, yet.

Until election season is over, Twitter has reached rock-bottom to me.

I won’t say it’s unusable, since I am using it, but I have to navigate around its main thing to continue with the positive elements of the network effect that exists there.

And so many accounts are super biased on any given topic to a clearly irrational degree. I keep seeing things that seem like satire, but instead they are genuinely written to appeal to lower information people in a way that, from my perspective, is highly patronizing to them.

I find it so distasteful. The prior election year 2020 had a lot of polarizing elements obviously, but 2024 has more clearly conscious polarizing elements going on. Large influencer accounts whose motives are clear toward a broader audience with talking points geared toward child-level rhetoric and civic understanding. You can watch them as an observer speaking to their flock as though they were children.

That's why I buy your books and you don't buy mine.