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Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb)
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[ENG/GER] NOT a bitcoiner/stacker/maxi. I am here to have a damn good time! Rabbithole conniseur; I enjoy random stuff. :D Ex-Furry, (close to) blind, hobby developer/sysadmin, waifu enjoyer, long hair fetish (#hairjob). I sometimes talk about NSFW stuff; because fucking is fun =) (DMs always open.)

Heino's random AF stint in the "Rock Scene" was so random, so weird and I honestly was so down for it. :D Some actual bangers are among them.

#tunestr https://song.link/s/5JUgkdJyKfmjkG1IF1dcmq

Wait, what's that icon next to my name...?

The lil flower thing.

https://void.cat/d/79hPxAKaG3m2WNSGwVc5od.webp

I swear, I thought all three-letter dot short-tld domains were sold.

Apparently not. Here is an excerpt from an iwantmyname search:

https://void.cat/d/8VrHSzsQbQXvGJYVPtUg9T.webp

Been wanting a super short domain. birb.it is neat, but i kinda ended up using it as my network's entire identity xD I also have ingwie.me and two others but i just wanna have an ultra short domain to throw email aliasing at, and run some tiny things (like my nostr relay) and just let it sit there as something i can type ultra fast or dictate to someone quickly. Yes... here in germany, at least, we still do dictate links, sometimes. xD

They don't disappear, but change names. :)

Nobody can edit that list, but you and the clients you use. I know of none that directly changes your follows without your interaction.

It is a killer feature for value-for-value enthusiasts and I wholly enjoy it.

But it is equally a mood killer for new people. Whilst our clients are improving, Snort now has a not-very-small "wallet widget" in the top left and it /bothers/ me.

Now how would someone from the mainstream, that largely knows crypto for scams, pays their monthly streaming bills and has never interacted with something like LBRY or Brave's things? There would be associations being made that wouldn't be right.

Eventhough Tiktok and Twitch have a "value for value" feature (they market it as such but its really not, lol) they don't constantly hold a wallet in your face.

I dunno if it is due to the recent developments in the bitcoin space in particular, but even Will is now posting about wanting to make a wallet integrated into Damus...? Why?

I mean, sure, I can just use different clients to avoid features I don't like but - at least from what i can see - the focus on adding more "money" features to Nostr is high... very high, in fact. And I just think that this isn't the right direction to take... But, it's just me, and I havent contributed a line of code - so what do I know. xD Just something that I had on my mind, in the end...

Actually, it *was* possible on Twitter.

Back in the day they had a public API endpoint that would just accept a since-parameter and you would periodically query it. You could even make it return your follows only, too.

It is lllllooooonnnnnngggggg gone at this point, but definitively existed. Back then I used a command line client called rainbow to just stream the newest things into a terminal I would tab into - so it was always dense and full of information. ^^

... Huh? This was in someone's Kind 3. Are those followed tags?

[

"a", "34550:026d8b7e7bcc2b417a84f10edb71b427fe76069905090b147b401a6cf60c3f27:Euronews"

],

Daaaaamn. One of my followers (i am using nak --stream -p ...) has a massive Kind 3. xD

Can we just fully and finally leave the Kind 3 "Follow List" to be exactly that, a follow list?...

https://void.cat/d/TU1BQrJcod2JM1G12vDgpV.webp

There is something ... nice, being able to just open all my relays in a nak stream and jq them to filter the outputs a bit and just watch stuff happen in real time - and seing how small Nostr objects really are, even as JSON. Sure, something like MsgPack would be *even* smaller... but honestly, those flat objects with a consistent structure that are easy to model and read, even with the naked eye, is amazing. ^^

imho Nostr needs no ETFs, not more wallets, or any other "money" addition.

We got logos now, so we should do something about the "branding", something we all can use to "market" Nostr to other people.

Just a random thought that occured to me while peeking at trending.

Has someone made a thing like awesome-nostr-logos on listr or something?

There are so many #nostrlogos and I lost track of at least half of all the ones posted...

Accurate photo of policitians and big tech people.

Only thing missing is the sausage's label being either Greed, Money or something akin. XD

Me and the bois were talking about IT jokes and one of them remembered "McSquirrel". So I went to DuckDuckGo, then DuckDuckGo, and tried to find this funny message a server provider posted once - but, nowhere to be found, literally "lost". o.o

So instead I popped my old MySQL database from way back in the day, loaded up CLI and did a `... text LIKE "%McSquirrel%";` and... found it. :D So here it is, enjoy!

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So like. Ok check this out. We have this big data center right? And this big data center is like really big and stuff, and it uses a lot of this power stuff. Well like ok so you know when you have really important stuff like I dunno your computer or your Xbox or something and if the power goes out you want to keep it from just suddenly turning off right? Cause there's nothing worse than when the power goes out during a game of Call of Duty and it's like "Oh Crap man I was just about to win and shit just got real and the hell?"

So you plug it in to this thing like a UPS or something kinda like the dudes that deliver packages and I always have to sign for shit. I mean it's no big deal anyways since I don't work during the day and deliver pizzas at night and the UPS guy is always here around 2:30 or so. Oh yeah. So ok About that.

So our really big data center is supposed to have a UPS which it does I think. But apparently like ok so some squirrel was like chewing on the wires again and it's like "stop it damnit", but anyways. So this squirrel is all up there omnomnoming the wires, and like zap! The squirrel is now like a McSquirrel or something which probably wouldn't taste good even with cheese and mayo, but like the power got all funny and the data center went pop and apparently the UPS was never plugged in cause Joe was like all like "Dude I'll do it tomorrow."

So now our customers like can't run their websites and stuff which sucks because now the world is all like "Omfg where's all the websites with cat pictures", and some 15-year-old can't see lolcats or something and kills himself and then it's like on the news abouthow we really fucked up and the headline is all like I Can has funeral and everyone laughs but it's a real dick move.

So we're trying to fix it, but it's like difficult and we think we got it so we want to apologize if your site wasn't working but it should work now so don't cancel your service. We promise this won't happen again. Until next week.

Thanks for the zaps nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 - much appreciated. But, I just have to ask, simply to make sure, is there perhaps a squirrel smashing the zap button on your node? XD

https://void.cat/d/4NGEskSSXaKu8Yxq4mEcEc.webp