I don't expect anyone to agree with me, but they should disagree for the right reasons.
Me: Nostr needs key rotation STAT
Zach: ... hold my nsec
Well fucking done.
The day it was supposed to process my monthly renewal (6/18), iMessage logged out of my phone. That was weird enough that I had screenshotted it at the time.
My ChatGPT+ just went back to Free. The card on file says it expired 12/23 when it actually expires on a different month in the future. 🤔
First principles are the only principles
Vaguely aware of a HTTP-over-nostr project, but ...
nostr = storage
http = cables
HTTP is immediate and transient. By signing messages, the data on nostr is authoritative for as long as it's retained.
No one talks about how unrealistic Trump's ear was because it's more important that we accept what we are told than that we are capable of rational thought. This isn't a stable configuration, nor a rewarding approach to life.
Yes, they are. There's nothing wrong with using them, but people who would be interested in his logical arguments will not be interested in being sold via pathos. Good journalism and emotional advertising don't mix well.
Priming is a basic pathos technique.
The problem isn't asking for money, but delivering the emotional hook that anchors the call to action. It's become the norm for people trying to make a name for themselves, but it subverts the logical argument that is supposed to be the point of the video.
When trying to make this argument myself, I'm not going to link to a video that ends with dramatic conjectures and asking for money. People watching it will enter logical and exit emotional. It's his prerogative, but it makes them lower quality to me.
Once you leave the Northeast it's hard to go back.
The ideal web isn't having more servers per person. Code will have bugs, hardware will fail, networks will be down. Instead we need better data. When you say something on nostr it doesn't necessarily land on any one server. As long as it lands somewhere, it can propagate to many places and what you said can be reconstructed. Data, not code.
Having run personal ones for decades, servers are a means to an end: it's the data that matters. Write things, sign them, and spread them around. People will find them, and as long as they know where they came from, trust them. Servers are rarely secure and should almost never be trusted on their own. And once you stop implicitly trusting servers it's easy to see that most of the time it doesn't matter who owns the server, as long as there are many that are independently run. This is what makes nostr powerful.
Why serve?
Sign Things And Relay Them
I don't like the modern usage of "opinions" – it implies a certain impulsivity that doesn't require thought. But most actual opinions aren't random: someone likes something or someone based on an informal analysis of their experiences. Some experiences we interpret correctly, some we misunderstand. Some misunderstandings are accidental, while others were intentional. Finally, some intentional misunderstandings are to help us, and others are to deceive and defraud.
It is these intentional deceptions that are the most corrosive. Opinions that rest on them will be backwards, acting against the best interests of those who hold them. I may agree or disagree with someone's philosophy, but when they can't see that they have built a castle on the sand, what else can be said?
I appreciate the documentation of direct evidence. After that the video gets speculative and emotional, ending in an unsurprising call to action for funding. I don't disagree with the broad strokes, but the latter parts make the video as a whole easier to dismiss.