I don’t know what life is like in New Zealand, but I can’t imagine it would be different for tech unless there are laws against outsourcing. Do you know if there are?

There is no serious company in the world that has started using AI in any official capacity. It just has not had an impact on jobs yet.

But they will claim it has, because this gives them a cover for their outsourcing.

Odd, I didn’t get anything. I notice I get a spinning wheel when trying to add you as a contact

> I pointed out that with AI rapidly improving, many of the jobs that have been cut likely aren’t coming back.

Lack of jobs has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with outsourcing and H1B.

Yes, AI is helpful. But you are actually the ill informed one if you think companies aren’t hiring because of it.

Companies *are* hiring. They’re just not hiring citizens.

The use case is when a convo starts about one thing and diverges topics, but the chat title is still just about the initial thing.

Also convos include a wide range of things often that can’t easily be summed up

Will the search include stuff in the body of the chat as well? Is that possibly coming in the future?

Nominative Determinism strikes again? Generation X….

Not all have forgotten. But the ones that don’t understand why young people are going back to flip phones…. They have forgotten.

Get the app on your AppStore and look up my npub. And message me haha. Just want to see how the UX is

Gen X and older really have forgotten what it was like to party without smartphones. Total freedom to just have fun with basically no fear. When you did see a camera, it was very obviously a camera and you can interact with it as such. No ambiguity, so no creepiness.

Yeah, pretty much that. Not just the online social stuff, but it’s also pretty obvious that even the presence of a smartphone kills the vibe in a way that is hard to put into words. Maybe the possibility of being recorded at any given moment? I think the youngest generations are realizing it. It’s why you’ll see a lot of flip phones in the hippest neighborhoods

Anyone want to test nostr:npub1tm99pgz2lth724jeld6gzz6zv48zy6xp4n9xu5uqrwvx9km54qaqkkxn72 with me? Not sure who else is using messaging that works with the new NIP-104 MLS

Granted, I am all for the movement to get rid of smartphones. Maybe that will pick up traction and web apps will become popular again. Sounds like a miracle, but we can pray.

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The elephant in the room with decentralized social / messaging is that nobody will ever use a web app. A web app will *never* gain significant adoption.

Better to have a severely limited and ugly native mobile app than to have an incredibly polished and robust web app.

The lack of user-owned compute will forever be the problem with Nostr. I’m bullish on Urbit again… can’t believe I’m saying it

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I’m really focusing on the ACLs / permissions UX though. E2EE doesn’t solve that.

I actually *like* that I can turn my Urbit off lol. If we want a forever running Urbit to hang out in, we can go to a “third space” like an Urbit run by a business.

I do love Rostra (and other P2P social things), but you will always run into this issue of compute.

People want a feeling of security and safety. They want Access Control Lists, friend requests, permissions. You need compute for that.

It’s why I still believe in Urbit. It’s the closest thing to a digital home we have. P2P social + safety and security. Users actually have their own compute. And it’s understandable where data lives (at my house, at your house, etc)

Extrapolating this out, why aren’t the biggest free relays showing us ads in our notifications?

It’s simple. When a user queries for notes, every so often, present notes that they didn’t ask for. Maybe even base the ads you show them on their existing activity. You now have a rival to Google/Meta ads.

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If the relay isn’t paid, it should be run by an existing business.

It should be like a Pizza Planet relay that advertises pizza to you every so often in your notifications. That would be an honest and sustainable business model.

I have a use case for this actually.

Prove that someone lives in a certain area. Mail a code to someone and they enter the code they were mailed, then they get the attestation that they live in a city or state etc. Could do this process once a year to verify.

Then stuff like civil discourse becomes much more meaningful. No bots or people from other locations chiming in.

How are badges related to IDs?