like, someone just zapped me just now for this note, and in the same second, my phone's alby go notified me of an inbound payment

considering how many separate systems were involved in doing that, comparing nostr to the legacy social network silos is ridiculous.

you'd be surprised how many places there is somewhat dangerous levels of methane in the atmosphere tho. more common where there is earthquakes but a lot more of a danger to people than recognised.

it's mostly not a problem for me because i spend most of my time on the lower storey with a big space for methane to float upwards, but carbon dioxide/monoxide is heavier than air, and what i think was happening was the levels of CO and CO2 were building up in my space with all the windows closed.

yeah, it's how Tor provides hidden services. there are also old systems for that like STUN and TURN. they solve the problem of so many clients on the internet not having inbound addresses or firewalls configured to drop inbound connections that you can't enable routing

yeah, the current problem is mostly that client devs see it as some kind of version of twitter. this completely ignores so many of the unique capabilities that come from a decentralised post office/pubsub/rendezvous protocol

NWC is a great example of how a substantial utility comes from leveraging, specifically, the rendezvous capability. this capability can be used as an interconnect between servers (like NWC does) but it can also be used to create real time collaborative workspaces, nobody has done that yet, but the potential is there.

yeah, i strongly believe that nostr would benefit from having a plain HTTP API. so i'm building one. i wrote a first draft a few months ago but i'm currrently reworking it to be more compliant with standards for HTTP APIs like using JSON schema.

stella is in a funny mood today. she delisted me from theforest because, best i can surmise, she thinks i'm opposing nostr adoption. but this contradicts other positions she holds about nostr that relate to the project she spends so much time working on, which doesn't involve adoption, but winning customers for useful applications.

since being taken off that relay, i'm actually seeing an improvement in the SNR on my feed so i totally don't mind. she's done me a favor

by the way, the nostr schema for filters especially is difficult to implement correctly in #golang because of its nonstandard structure. you can't simply define a standard Go struct to cover, specifically, those #a etc tags, which are omitempty and i implemented them as a simple array with the first field being the key and the rest being the other elements of the arrray.

fiatjaf used some custom JSON code generator library for go-nostr but it's retardedly inefficient and slow compared to the code i wrote for handling this stuff.

as i see it, one of the key goals that nostr has is to replace the nonuniform, bespoke real time messaging protocols used in apps like MeisterTask and Figma, that allow collaborative workspaces. for this use case, it needs to be as efficient as possible because latency matters a lot.

i'm working on the HTTP API right now. i've decided i'm not happy with the way that my previous implementation wasn't exactly compliant with JSON Schema so i'm adding some new codecs and annotations so the docs API renders precisely what the inputs and outputs are validated against. it's a bit of work but it will be worth it i think.

i really regret signing up a new account on linkedin again

they keep sending more emails from more subscriptions and i use the unsubscribe feature of proton to dispel them but somehow there is so many more categories that are still waiting to fire me some garbage i'm not interested in and they aren't letting me turn them off without giving my identity document to them

i'm pretty sure this violates the GDPR in some way

100%

this is why i write a lot of encoders. using other people's libraries can solve the problem also but very often they are general purpose solutions that are slow at doing something specific, or cumbersome.

if i was a painter i would have a big shelf full of pigment powders and paint bases and mix my own palette with little scales to measure up proportions and all that also.

if you are familiar with how color process printing works, you will understand that the gamut of colors available from a standard color set may not include patches of the spectrum and once you've seen side by side the same image rendered with those colors present, you understand the difference. 4 color CMYK can render most of the spectrum but there are 6 color schemes that include numerous other colors (like orange or purple or deep blue) and they also look more vivid.

so, yeah, reinventing the wheel, just talking about painting, is worth doing if you want to make something specific. these things can seem like gimmicks but they do add value to your product.

the notion of nostr as merely a reimplementation of twitter is a misunderstanding of what the protocol can do

probably the kind one, globally replicated feed will continue to exist and will grow so large that it mainly is provided by a small set of scale capable providers like nostr.land and nostr.wine

but small relay clusters and single relay based communities and apps to serve them are increasing in number as time goes by, and it will be in those conditions that the original nostr vibe will continue to exist

the difference will be that people will be able to be members of multiple, relevant communities with a single client instead of there being an abject gulf between them. people will be able to quote posts from other communities and have them appear in other communities, for example, this is something that the old school forum BBS couldn't fix, and partly how we ended up with these giant monolithic online social network cities like twitter and facebook.

comparing nostr to these highly scaled, but siloed social networks is like comparing trains to horse caravans. in principle they are similar, but they only are common at a high level of abstraction. just like the internet is like book and music publishing, it is far more than that, because of its symmetric connection to users. nostr is the continuation of a trend on the internet towards thinner membranes between connected systems. it has the potential to obsolete the isolation of systems, like, you have to pick - telegram, slack, discord... or twitter, reddit, stackexchange, facebook, instagram. each silo binds to a local identity and this identity cannot be carried from one place to another, the links across between the islands is very narrow and cumbersome.

also, i think these events are causing a bug in nostrudel.ninja on my feed, it starts to show a feed and then there is an error about a missing identifier.

i probably need to add some kind of filter to the spider in #orly to exclude these dumb things. i know my event codec works correctly so i don't really understand which identifier is missing, and being javacrap, i probably have no practical way of finding out why. so i can't use nostrudel for my feed now, apparently.

i might just go through the events that come up with this bogus crap on kind 10002s and mute all of the npubs so they aren't even fetched in the first place.

if you don't get it that nostr is a tribe of people who have been exiled from the rest of the internet, or don't believe it, i don't have time to explain it to you, sorry

probably a good model for one's class on nostr, i guess i'm second class. maybe third. newbies are always steerage.

anyway, i came here to be with my tribe, who have been exiled from the rest of the internet. we built this ship. i'm an engineer.

The Book tells us to do this. and i think some of those described in The Book are also going to make sure that we continue to fulfill this mandate.

and this is also why nostr is so important because a great number of nostr users are blacklisted and shadowbanned from the rest of the social networks. and they can't shut us down. we are too small and numerous like the ants in Bug's Life, after they figure out they don't have to be slaves of the locusts.

also, just sayin' but nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x has 40k followers according to nostr.band

if you discount that as 20% active it's still more followers than he had on twitter

i am a happy customer of the OP also. i always liked his paintings and had a whim i was going to get one, and now it sits on the shelf up high above my pc. nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x 's paintings are beautiful, and especially these coastal seascape/sunset/sunrise images, look like the view from out my front door.

numbers are impersonal. when your message is intimate, numbers mean nothing. intimacy is everything.

the nonsense about how nostr is bad for business is just nonsense.

when i was a tech support freelancer, my best marketing results came from personally delivered small fliers advertising my services. i got about 1% conversion rate from this, which is pretty phenomenal if you know what numbers are like in marketing.

one time i tried using a bulk wide area delivery of 5000, cost me AUD$700, and i got zero conversion rate.

nostr has a high signal to noise ratio, and nostr users have a strong loyalty and preference towards doing business with other like minded people who value the high signal discussions that go on here.

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpaxm2fctmxgmz7l2reksxh69mm3e9yvu99r5hwkpqdpdyg78fcxsqythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qqs9en2m9aeux4034yg6v6545grwxevdyxz6t65z9mc0r5ftftpppzqgwffmq

before facebook, my main interest in discussions on the internet were technical forums. mainly about drugs, mainly DMT and methamphetamine. i'm now programming and most of the discussion forums are practically read only, i hate reddit, and they even block my VPS VPN address so i hardly even read them at all anymore, and stackexchange answers are usually useful but i only find them because they come up with high relevance to my search for a fix on something... even then, so often these ancient, outdated responses.

i have more technical discussions on nostr now than anywhere else. mostly just me reporting issues i see in my work. also a lot of stuff about religion and spirituality and alt-history.

most of the semi-technical stuff i discuss on nostr would probably also get me shadow banned on twitter as well. there's a reason why many of the groups involved in talking about alt history and alt science are constrained to small youtube and telegram channels.

even if i waste my time trying to not get banned on twitter, there's very little relevant discussion to my interests anyway. at least here i have a few frens who read and comment and give their own contributions to such topics.

when your favourite things are outside the walls of the narrative machine, reach doesn't matter. what matters is finding other people at all.

anyone have any idea what the deal is with events like this:

{"id":"7b69e00d3fb37ac88f22cff408da16ca2067a23ad05c22bff073a4a145709184","pubkey":"3daa9d7c1b2f3f901ee1658257ff3253c77d4c022456ec2aa78841d707f07d7b","created_at":1720009887,"kind":10002,"tags":[["r","wss://nostr.oxtr.dev/\""],["\"","ss://relay.p"],[".","/\"],[\"r\",\"wss://relay"],["s","/\"],[\"r\",\"wss://r"],["n","r.band/\"],[\"r\","],["/","loco.nl/\"],[\""],["s","/nostr.mom/\"],[\"r\",\"wss://n"],["l",",[\"r\",\"wss://bitcoiner.social"],["\"","\"wss://nostr.bitcoiner.socia"],["[",",\"wss://nostr.swiss-enigma.c"],["[",",\"wss://nostr.cercatrova."],[",","\",\"wss://relay.exit.pub/\"],[\"r\""],[":","elay.siamstr.com/\"],[\"r"],["s","relay.nostr.bg/\"],[\"r"],["s","relay.nostrcheck.me/\"],[\"r"],["s","au.purplerelay.com/\""],["\"","ss://offchain.pub/\"],"],["\"","://btc.klendazu"],["\"","\"r\",\"wss://relay.hodl."],[",","\",\"wss://no.str.cr/\"],"],["\"","://nostr.zoel.network/\"],["],["w","//nostr-1.nbo.angani"],["]","r\",\"wss://relay.mostr.pub"],["\"","\"wss://relay.snor"],["i","\"],[\"r\",\"wss://140.f7z.io"],["\"","\"wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com/"],["r","wss://njump.me/\"],[\"r\",\"wss://n"],["p","wellorder.net/\"],[\"r\",\"ws"],["u","epag.es/\"],[\"r\",\"ws"],["n","r.neutrine.com/\"],"],["\"","://bitcoinmaximalists.onl"],["]","r\",\"wss://freespeech.casa/\""],["\"","ss://relay.noswhere."],["]","r\",\"wss://bitstack.app/\"],[\"r\","],["/","lay.lawallet.ar/\"],[\"r"],["s","bucket.coracle.socia"],["[",",\"wss://ithurtswheni"],["\"","\"r\",\"wss://nostr.zbd.gg/"],["r","wss://fiatjaf.com/\"],["],["w","//fiatjaf.nostr1.com/\"],[\"r\","],["/","che1.primal.net/v1\"],[\"r"],["s","relay.nimo.cash/\"],[\"r\",\"w"],["r","y.hawties.xyz/\"],[\"r\",\"w"]],"content":"","sig":"bb8eeb0ba1836ec0599dee221d0b89a850bf2146b2d95f4b58002717a86be835b95201830645a9bd8cc82ee386c03948237674d904681c97fc6533ce80eb7275"}

you can see that this sorta looks like a mis-parsed relay list, the kind is correct, but it looks like the parser chopped up the tags randomly, thus all the escapes of random shit mostly quotes

i noticed that at least one of them (you can find the profile metadata of these events) was a mostr.pub feeder from some gay freedumb tech NGO

whoever is running that bridge, i assume it's them in most cases, have got some buggy shit in their relay list parsing.

in any case, bridge accounts don't have a reverse path anyway so relay lists are irrelevant.

i figured you meant to type strange because that fit in the context

apple is special. interop between apple is all that matters, you philistine!

unfortunately, apple users are practically a cult, and us outsiders are personae non grata. not really our fault if they have drank the koolAid.

well, it's not a word? at least nobody has used it before.

i was under the impression for a long time that VP8 was the best format for wide playability?

what is streerage?

she means awareness not control

space cadet is someone who is constantly getting distracted by novelties

deprecate witness. push people to use schnorr signatures.

just looking at the enclosure, no way that bear couldn't get out of it if he was hungry.

they are all redundant, don't really do anything valuable, use shitty languages that were popularised by deception, and are insecure as fuck in production, not to mention shit slow and hard to debug.

i gotta say i'm probably gonna be laughing at all the javascript and rust fans who thought their language was cool until they discover they can't get a job without giving a pint of blood and a pledge to give their firstborn to be raped and eaten.

https://www.golangprojects.com/golang-remote-jobs.html

this is where i'll be hunting.

it's insecure. the end.

the only real security on the internet is a secret key that you physically control and using software that protects it from breach. or even better, a physical key that isolates from your computer and just signs hashes when you tap it after receiving a request.

KYC is about to become ded. when the hackers publish 90% of internet users passwords and passport and ID photos what do you think happens to the public perception of the safety of this system?

mobile networks sim security is already toast some years now. many services have reverted back to using email one time codes.

you'd have to be blind to not notice what's happening. all the old models are dying of their vulnerabilities. conspiracy theories are going mainstream. the scam is on its way to out. the smart guys in the scam are already retired.

yeah, maybe for all the vibe coding javascript victims

for my preferred language, there is specialist sites now that are way better for finding something that won't make me want to vomit in my mouth.

SS for frying is easy if you just have some patience to let the hot oil bed into it before you put stuff on, and prefer lower heat.

cast iron is better tho. it's actually steel, with more carbon than normal. most people don't even realise that. pure raw iron is useless shit. good for magnets.

brainwashing is what causes this faulty thinking. a manipulator implants a set of phobias in their victims and everything adjacent to the phobia is inconceivable, until the person is deprogrammed, by which i mean, the phobias are dispelled.

UnchartedX guy is not a conspiracy theorist. he actually goes out and looks at stuff and uses is knowledge of stoneworking to examine what he's seeing.

anyone could have noticed this stuff before, if they had any serious knowledge of the properties of various kinds of stones and how you cut them and move them.

the mainstream archaeology narrative is complete bunk. they could not have done it even with simple hand tools made from tempered steel, let alone copper. not to mention how tf they moved 100+ ton single pieces of stone that some statues and obelisks are made from.

the fact that the remnants of the tools no longer can be found doesn't have any relevance either, because metallic items are constantly recycled after they wear out and if not, rust into oxides that leave almost no trace of what they were, unless somehow by chance they got buried under a shitload of mud (like what happened to fossils) - only in those conditions can oxygen reactive materials remain excluded from oxygen, and the water level has to be even lower than you see with bones. peat bog mummies are one of the few kinds of "fossils" that exist that retain most of the carbonaceous material because they are buried under mud in water that has no oxygen in it. such conditions would preclude preserving metals because the water still will react with it.

there was people before the egyptians we know of, who left many things behind in egypt. TAOY says that they were the atlanteans, who relocated to the east side of africa before the disaster of 12000 years ago (which it doesn't say was a pole shift, but it was a pole shift). about 11000 years ago there was meteor strikes and airbursts though. these created a lot of the desert you see in the middle east and north africa, and several lakes in the americas were formed from impact craters. at the time, though the land was quite baked, there was still the Nile and its basin, the Tamanrasset river, used to exist and its source was the Atlas mountains and it ran down to the east towards the nile basin. this was how they moved their location, they were a seafaring, boat using civilization and they had VERY high technology. the account in Enoch of his flight across the world precisely corresponds to multiple locations between west africa and across through the middle east, india, and to what is now indonesia. it also clearly describes the Canary Islands as well.

here's some of the evidence of tool marks on the chapels of the Karnak Temple: https://youtu.be/gHIWfdLKtx4?t=1506

yeah, with high tech cutting gear lol.

there are witness marks on the large calcite slabs in the karnak temple, i think it was, that have diameters like this

if i don't want to kyc, then give me the option to close my account

cannot close account because no kyc

wut?

owned

is that a tactikilt? haha i love that stuff. my mother's main family line comes from up there.