Previous week I had to honour to host a second Nostr NL meetup with nostr:npub1l77twp5l02jadkcjn6eeulv2j7y5vmf9tf3hhtq7h7rp0vzhgpzqz0swft and nostr:npub1w98ems6ryhpv7zvmhwp5sv65p0pwrnvzw4lucn0ch776qan9ntdstscwpx at Seats2meet Utrecht CS during the monthly Tech Tuesdays. This time we held a talk / presentation in which we explained some core-concepts of Nostr as a open protocol.
We talked about the current most popular clients (Primal, Damus, Amethyst) where you can expierence a Twitter-style social public space online.
We discussed which problems with the internet Nostr could fix. It could act as a strong counterforce against the current BigTech platforms and their business models.
We showed how the protocol transmits information as JSON formatted data between clients through relays.
We discussed the advantages, disadvantages and current challenges around Nostr.
At the end we had some drinks and enjoyed the orange-pilled beers from nostr:npub135q6dvnjah9023xszmjs2wvd4gqhn2trku52wt2lv8cl4hc8ltjsk0w4sq.
I would like to thank everyone who was there. If you’re interested in the next one, we will meet again Tuesday April 16 at 19:30 CEST Seats2meet Utrecht CS. During this meetup we will dive further into the value4value model with Nostr, a semantic web and micropayments + split payments with zaps. And we have some Nostr pins left you can get at the meetup 🙂

Getting there on Tuesdays will always be a difficult challenge i'm afraid.
I like the short recap and wish you all a lot of fun though.
This note goes extremely well with the book "The subtle art of not giving a f*ck" by Mark Manson. It explains pretty well that one can only give so many f*cks in their life so you will have to choose where they should go to.
Permanent happiness is an illusion. Life is suffering. Choose the ways to suffer that give you the best feelings of achievement.
I guess that's normal? I recently made pizza and got it up to 300°C and mine showed the exact same thing.
Probably has to do with the fact that i have to keep it outside during winter and it gets to gather a lot of moisture and mold everywhere. I guess it was a good thing i went and made pizza's with it first.
It was super easy to wipe off the next day with a dry cloth.
Thanks to nostr:npub1jqs0u7zhh53e94gyhm4eu458wm6sw7z0kk66jjhhkhh346tcq2ysfgr247 for sending and thanks nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 for writing!

Dear EU Legislators,
I wrote this in 2021 for a reason.
Love,
A concerned citizen.
https://dergigi.com/2021/08/02/implications-of-outlawing-bitcoin/
Becoming more and more relevant each day.
On my way to Bitcoin Arnhem. Looking forward to meet other Nostr plebs such as nostr:npub1cn670f663n3ks02jnnlsvd5y88zjnefy8343ykaxs7y3nzzketrsrjwt8a 
At least you met a nostr noob!
That makes two of us. Mine just lost pressure super slowly so i filled it up only to become too low pressure again like halfway. Tire shop found a screw where there should have just been rubber.
It's like the fifth screw in a couple of years. Starting to feel like i somehow seem to magnetize my wheels.. 🤔
Wow i follow not even 20 accounts, i post maybe 1 note per week (mostly replies) though i'm fairly new (4ish months or so?) but i have no expectations.
Truth be told i'm not here for yet another social media experience. I find the protocol fascinating and like to keep up with whatever people start doing with it apart from the nth incarnation of something that still mostly looks like twitter.
To me it's about the possibilities and not the actual engagement and it seems like most of the things that people do with it appear here first.
I would argue that it comes down to how the most popular clients will set their relays. Right now most clients do not actively engage you to set your own relays or choose some from a list. Instead they mostly seem to use some predefined list. If they don't change this then inherently the relays defined by the most popular clients will see the biggest engagement and therefore become the biggest centralized hot spots.
On the other hand i can also understand that the experience may not be really awesome if you pick some (random) relays that people are just testing out for a couple of days or weeks just to see them disappear shortly thereafter.
definitely a bitcoiner but my posts might be a lot about other stuff as well.
What is your passphrase best practice?
Was asked about the following setup:
nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j Passport, uses encrypted backup with SDcard. Access code to unencrypt is in physical distributed location that would take significant time to travel. SDCard only is a risk as it can burn/break etc.
So the client uses a physical steel backup with 24 words, again a different location. On a different location holds the passphrase on steel.
How do you rate this setup? There’s redundancy in both the SD Card, Steel seed phrase and steel passphrase. Do you think a double backup for the passphrase is required?
Would love more input on best practices around this. nostr:npub15c88nc8d44gsp4658dnfu5fahswzzu8gaxm5lkuwjud068swdqfspxssvx nostr:npub17h7h2jzhq3hn06h93jvz67sfjxaq3jvk7kenjrazht28aun33hks42sd76

Backup is actually a 2 part process with the first part being actually creating the thing that allows you to restore it later.
The second part is what is just as important And what i've learned is that people do not go often enough, or sometimes at all, through this process. I am of course talking about actual recovery. Your backup is worthless without this part.
Whatever your prefered method may be, if you are unable to read the words on your steel properly, or if you have never tried any recovery attempt from the backup procedure you came up with the whole "how safe is it?" question becomes insignificant.
Like with everything else in life keeping it simple probably beats adding extra layers of security because they add complexity to your restore procedure and might make it impossible to restore over decennia.
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And then they deprecate one method that was ideal or improve upon another. Or you find some weird edge case in which one of them turns out to be slower with lists > n.
It's always so many trade-offs and decisions to make on whether to improve X, fix deprecation Y now or make new feature Z..
I think it would be nice if there was maybe some "in the middle" solution. I don't think (but i am also not 100% sure) that everything is constantly being driven into certain narratives, it's just specific topics. Most of them will have some kind of political character ro try to protect some party's specific interest.
I would think that if some article was created way back in, say, 2006 and only had minor edits that also happened a long time ago it's probably ok.
But yeah maybe it doesn't have to start with loads of data. In the end you could still go to the wikipedia page itself but i think it would be great if switching back and forth qas not necessary.
Maybe the question is more a matter of if it's more work to have everything and have people go at the absolutely tainted articles (a good way to find out if the trust system works) or start from scratch not having tainted articles but run the risk that it doesn't get much traction and it takes long for articles to appear at all.
The nostr:npub14f26g7dddy6dpltc70da3pg4e5w2p4apzzqjuugnsr2ema6e3y6s2xv7lu expansion program in full effect w/ nostr:npub155c00a6mvtuxquc83lgdsgcz2zxfyulvs3k3janw7s2p06uzqezqw6dfkh
Brekkie is the 1st restaurant to accept #bitcoin in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica (using bitcoin jungle)
❌ No seed oils
✅ Stainless steel pans
✅ Grass-fed meat
✅ Pasture raised eggs
More to come, see the map in the app 🤙
🧡 Pura Vida
Awesome! I wish the rest of the world would come around from the toxic seed oils they keep using everywhere. You're the first restaurant in the world that i run in to that cooks like i do at home. If it wasn't for the 30 hour trip to get there i'd eat there every week.


