I tried searching by npub and came up empty. The effect is that even with a browser extension I can't use and nostr web clients.
Why does nostr work just fine with amethyst but web clients can't find my profile info at all?
A most blessed Easter to all. That He is risen changes everything.
The speed of light pops out of Maxwell's equations as the inverse square root of the permittivity and permeability of free space. G doesn't come into it. Invariance with respect to reference frame *is* an assumption, but one that fits observation.
We scale via institutions. As a Catholic I am not more than 3 steps to the Pope and 5-6 to any other Catholic in the world. The trick is creating software and tools that strengthen our existing governments and institutions while not being controlled by them. p2p networks tend to have a strong anti-institutional flavor that is well-motivated but unworkable. Our institutions, as corrupt as they are, do provide a framework for trust beyond the tribal scale. I'd be delighted to be able to create my own private key, but then be able to pop down to the courthouse to get my public key signed so I could vote, and pay taxes automatically but with software the people created and as such doesn't spy on me.
My vision of web of trust is that it’s not enough for WoT to curate content, facts and information. WoT must simultaneously curate the very digital languages we use to communicate about those things. The reason WoT has never lived up to expectations is that we have never even really tried to do that. But it can definitely be done. Just gonna take some work.
Here’s a recent post of mine describing a bit about how I envision web of trust to find the users and content we’re looking for without getting distracted by the cult of the social media “influencer”.
https://prettygoodproject.substack.com/p/the-pretty-good-way-to-calculate
Interesting. Sorry for the delayed response I am only here on Sundays for a bit. But your ideas strike a chord with me. I am convinced that web of trust is the only final solution to scaling and filtering. The problem comes in initializing a web of trust that piggybacks on the in person web of trust that we all use to navigate society offline.
Our brains map trust and certainty across a functionally infinite series of scopes. I trust my father, a physician, with medical advice, but not technological, even then there are shades of certainty depending on subtopic.
I don't think we can build a successful web of trust absent the stakes of broken trust that we encounter in every day life. The backbone of the network needs to be real relationships with real people. Aliases and anonymity must be the exception that is enabled by the general rule. A web of trust needs to be used in common with day to day activities to be built with values of certainty that approximate useful weights.
The same web should underlie employee, student, and patient records, payment processing, communications, social contracts and obligations voting etc.
I like nostr because it flirts with some of the right ideas to make this possible, it is just a bit simplistic. I have been building my own thing, but as a stay at home dad, time is very limited and progress is slow. I see all the right ideas already floating around but they are never pulled together into a cohesive product.
If I sound like someone you wouldn't mind on your discord I'd be happy to join.
Depends on whether you are a beginner or an expert is some other low level language. The best way to learn rust is to dive in with whatever knowledge you already have. Certainly deeper understanding would come from an intimate knowledge of underlying architectures, data structures, and algorithms, but they are not prerequisites and can be picked up when needed.
The key is to just get started and start building things that interest you. There are so many tools to help you if you get stuck. Google, the rust book https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/
Irc discord etc and your favorite LLM.
Petnames is the only workable system. It should be coupled with a visual indicator of whether the person is familiar to you to prevent spoofing. The equivalent of a blue check for users that I have signed a key for and some other indicator for close degrees of separation.
Stacking sats is noise as well. "Where your treasure is there will your heart be also." Love, everything else is noise.
Congratulations to ULA on the successful inaugural launch of their Vulcan Rocket!!
Read this as "office chat" does nostr have one of those yet? If you had an office chat you could get people on board for a cat.
Happy New Year!!
I am alarmed at how quickly I have turned into a consumer of other people's notes on nostr and that the vast majority of notes on my feed are from one account. I need to retrain my brain on how to productively engage in conversation on this protocol.
Colliders in space please! I've no notion of is a good idea or not, but just think ho big they could be!!
As announced at the #FutureOfBitcoinMining conference, I have relaunched my Eligius mining pool to help bring more decentralization to #Bitcoin mining.
I am calling it OCEAN nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze
Congratulations! Don't remotely understand how the direct payments work, but very cool idea if it does.
I'd agree, but first Nostr needs to onboard billions of people to Nostr.