How many coffees per day does Nostr drink? Curious where I sit on the spectrum.

For me it's three americanos. Double shot in each from a fairly budget spec B2C machine. One at 5am, one at 10am and one after lunch.

How about you? ☕

#AskNostr

I’ve been fascinated by an idea that doesn’t have a word, so I am going to coin one:

Cryptopistemology

A mashup of crypto- (hidden) and epistemology (the study of knowledge),

There is lots of hidden knowledge encoded in our world that is not easily accessible, due to taboo or simply because it is understudied.

I grew up on the internet thinking all of the world’s knowledge is on there to learn. I quickly realized how wrong this was.

A good example is street smarts. You can’t really pick this up in a book or from YouTube videos. Some knowledge can only be gained through experience on the ground, immersed in the complexity of life.

#insomniastr

Awesome. I do and I also acknowledge its strangeness! I think the video does a good job of summing up my thoughts to it.

I could never move coz there’s barely any surf. But it’s an interesting spot

Fruit flies > AI

“Fortunately for the worriers, AI today is incredibly inefficient. It requires power inputs which would service a small city and such vast quantities of data to train itself that the entire internet is not enough. By contrast, flies, which are powered by rotting fruit, can do things no AI can yet manage. If their ability to navigate and avoid objects could be replicated, for example, then designing self-driving vehicles would be a doddle.” -Economist

More of a comment than a question but we will take it.

If I could bring my freedom, I would like to move to Spain or Portugal.

I swear, Google goes out of their way to make the worst possible products. Trying to manage YouTube for your kids is next to impossible. Want an ad-free Google TV? Nope, have to jump through all sorts of steps to disable that. Then the endless authentication checks … total nightmare.

We now live in the year 2024.

And some people still smoke.

Usually low-educated “lower class”. But still. They must know it’s bad for everything? And stinks? And costs you money you could spend on nice things?

What’s wrong with them?

To be fair, it's not unreasonable to have this primal desire for subkeys and key rotation. The problem is that:

1) it's not possible to do without centralization (or a blockchain) -- Bluesky tried, and the best solution they came up with was a big server that hosts a history of keys for everybody and can censor anyone;

2) doing it by means of Nostr events that declare subkeys or delegation or whatnot, creates insurmountable complexity that turns Nostr into an unusable pile of bloatware and away its most basic feature: the chance of working;

3) it's not the only way to protect your key from rogue computers and apps -- NIP-46 and other methods exist and are much nicer to use, with still many unexplored possibilities;

4) it's not clear that more than 16 people in the entire world want this at all -- when was the last time a normal person thought about rotating their PGP keys?

Gamers taking over nostr streaming. 💜