Following hashtags is the only way to get an interesting feed on Nostr.

Stop trying to use dice-rolled seeds unless you're an expert ❌

Just had yet another person (hard to count the total now) reach out about a low-entropy seed they generated and were allowed to import into a certain hardware wallet. A lot of the blame for these lost funds falls on influencers who shill users on overly-complex security setups without properly explaining the massive risks and tradeoffs associated for the average user.

What happened:

Less than 10min after funds were sent to what they thought was secure storage, they were swept to an attackers address.

They used <10 dice rolls, meaning the private key had <25bits of entropy when the minimum for strong security is 50 dice rolls (128 bits of entropy). Wallets should not allow a user to import a seed that they know is completely insecure.

Staying safe:

As I have said many times, if you don't know the ins and outs of dice rolls, entropy, verification of the resulting seed offline, etc. please do not use dice rolls alone for seed generation. 99.99999% of users are better off allowing good, multi-source, open-source random number generation like we do on Passport.

To date I have heard of zero compromised seeds that were generated using on-board RNG due to entropy issues, while there are countless examples of users losing funds due to improper dice rolls.

Stay safe out there, folks.

For the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with bringing my desktop screens into VR.

It's getting there. The folks at Immersed have thought through working in a VR environment. And I'm happy to say the #Linux support is solid.

Has anyone else tried this?

Live dangerously.

Post something on Nostr that actually needs Nostr to remain uncensored.

i have reasonable, not expensive but decent, quality dual driver speakers now, and the difference between mp3/aac audio coding versus flac is really audible to my ears

i'm going to start using youtube as a discovery mechanism but start to accumulate the good stuff on a dedicated storage device

the difference is really acute to my ears, and i did have some three ways a couple years ago, onkyos, with piezo tweeters, mids and a big fat sub... i miss those things... dual is minimal, three way is minimal, IMO for hifi

Im afraid of using more than 2 nostr clients because of server caching

What are the best Nostr accounts to follow that post motivational & self improvement content? Stuff to get you excited and motivated? Would like to fill my feed with more of that energy.

If by that you mean it has bugs that will not get fixed for decades, then target acquired.