I have no idea. But I do think we need more tools to handle coordinated inauthentic behavior.

Welcome!

I’m experiencing an issue where Claude Code CLI loses its MCP configuration after upgrades (which happen frequently). I have similar problems with Goose and Cursor (though I rarely use Cursor anymore). MCPs feel incredibly powerful yet frustratingly fragile across these tools.

Has anyone found ways to make MCP setups more stable and easier to configure/maintain across different AI coding assistants?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

That sucks. Hopefully we’ll get you back up and running with a roof that keeps the rain out.

Last week I went on the Decentered Media Podcast. We talked a lot about the community media and activist origins of social media along with the permissionless social protocols we’re building today and my campaign for social media rights.

https://decentered.co.uk/building-participatory-media-with-evan-henshaw-plath-aka-rabble/

Podcasts are xml. :) it’s rss 😳

I just now noticed the typo!

Pretty subset.

I'm working on the site for my new podcast, revolution.social and i was about to go install ghost. But then i was wondering, does using a CMS for site like that even make sense? I mean are we to the point where I should just have an LLM agent add the functionality I want to the react site as it is?

Are CMS's dead? What would be the advantage of using one any more?

I was wrong, it was a nightmare.

nostr:nprofile1qqszrdqezqk63lqt4yzgftkfxjl4tdatea67akeezf8g6a0yj86p5hsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7surqfs you’re right. You can as I said pay for the visa via the web using a credit card. But it’s $200 if you do it that way instead of $20!

AI wants to be in the future and we have to coax it back in to reality.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/haxuco_the-biggest-mindset-shift-ive-seen-with-activity-7336093184776691713-fQY4?utm_source=share&utm_

🙂

My talk at #OsloFreedomForum, The Revolution will be Social, is online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwzlpiFh-8

That’s why they painted a black box over the “FREE” part i think

The visa is paid for with an in app purchase, which i think is not exactly the same thing as ApplePay but the two overlap.

#freeAssange smooth jazz. https://v.nostr.build/inB8QqiiuAhznKkz.mp4

Why must I use ApplePay and an app to apply for a visa?

This weekend, I’m travelling to Sydney to interview Yoel Roth for my upcoming Revolution.social podcast. I’m excited to talk to him because, after leaving Twitter, he wrote a paper about the trust and safety challenges facing social media protocols. If we decentralise social media, how do we govern ourselves without relying on centralised systems that can define who has permission to participate?

I need an electronic travel authorization to go to Australia and mine had expired. How hard can it new to renew it? Much harder than it should be.

The thing is, a visa is the most intense kind of government permission. And the permissioned and centralised world of technology almost derailed my entire trip. When I was at the Oslo Freedom Forum, I lost my fiat debit card. It wasn’t a big deal; I blocked it in my bank’s app, and I have other cards, so it wasn’t a major issue. I ordered a replacement card, but my bank requires me to use it physically at a store before they’ll allow me to use the new card for digital payments. And it hasn’t arrived in the post yet. No big deal, I have alternatives, lots of ways of paying for things.

Last night, I remembered to double check my Australian visa. To my surprise, I found out that I needed to renew it. No problem; I went to their website and they directed me to use their mobile app. Fine, I’ll download it again. But here’s where things started to go wrong. Apparently, the Australian government has decided that the visa should only be paid for with an in-app purchase! And because I had frozen my debit card, I couldn’t use that card. My bank wouldn’t unfreeze it because I had ordered a replacement card.

There is a website method, but it lacks any instructions, there are hundreds of questions instead of half a dozen, and it wasn’t clear to me what of the hundreds of Visa options I was supposed to choose.

So I’m waiting for my flight in Auckland but can’t check in because my visa isn’t set up. I need the app and to make an in app purchase!!!

Apple wouldn’t let me re-download the visa app because it has in-app payments and I needed an active card. Now I’ve got like 6 cards in my phone’s digital wallet! But Apple will only let me use a debit card with a New Zealand address! There’s literally an Apple Card with plenty of limit on this phone, but I can’t use it. I tried to use my new NZ company account, but it’s new and I only put $10 to test that it worked right before my trip to OFF! It worked but Apple had more delayed payments than $10, so it quickly declined more payments. Apple still wouldn’t let me re-install the visa app! So I immediately transferred a few hundred dollars from in to the new company account. Normally inter-bank transfers in Australia and New Zealand are immediate because both countries have small banking systems where all banks actually use a single centralized database. Not great for privacy but it’s normally very efficient.

I did an intrabank transfer to my non-blocked company account. But instead of being immediate they said it might take “a few hours!” So I tried adding funds to the new company account using debit or credit cards not those all blocked. Probably money transmitter rules about using cards to fund a bank account vs purchasing. Why provide the option if it won’t go through. Dunno. My guess is the bank was happy to accept it but the credit card companies I use blocked it.

I thought, okay, let me find a pre-paid NZ card. Turns out that there are tons of ways I could be a card issuer of prepaid cards in NZ, but I couldn’t find one which I could get a virtual card online with an NZ address.

Cash App was happy to let me use my BTC to fund some prepaid cards, but they all ended up with European or American issuing banks! Despite being marketed as New Zealand prepaid cards, but they all ended up being either impossible for me to set up to find or not actually based in NZ. Turns out that this stumbling through options lead to me getting a few prepaid no-KYC bitcoin-funded debit cards by accident! All this financial regulation and I stumbled in to anonymous credit cards.

Another option would be just switch my AppStore back to the US. But, Apple won’t let you change your country for your AppleID if you have any active subscriptions. I’ve got a bunch of US cards in my Apple wallet, but I can’t use them.

I missed my flight and had to rebook on a later one, not cheap. But kept going, trying to find a way to install this app. I tried to use my work Apple ID that I use for the nos.social app. While Apple lets you use phone numbers as 2-factor auth, it’s really buggy and doesn’t work for setting up a user in macOS or iOS. They really want you to use the own AppleID everywhere. I could log in to the US Apple account but only via the iCloud website, oh, and Apple Developer Connect. Useless for me in this situation. It wouldn’t take my US AppleID on my laptop or phone.

I also kept trying to find a debit card that Apple NZ would accept, get my personal bank to unblock my card, or even the new business account to work. Nothing.

If I didn’t figure this out, I’d miss my now rescheduled flight.

Eventually, I went through and got the very complicated website to work and spent $200 on a tourist visa. This same visa costs $20 if I use the Apple / Android app and their payment rails! The visa came back confirmed in a couple minutes, after paying the 10x “web tax.”

Right after that, I went through and got confirmation that the bank transfer to my new business account cleared. Honestly, it’s the first time since moving to New Zealand I’ve had an interbank fiat transfer take time; it’s normally immediate! Just when I needed it.

Why is this tech so locked down? Apple won’t let me fund my Apple “iTunes” account with my own cards, but only allows local fiat payments. Australia makes it 10 times more expensive to use their website instead of Apple Pay and makes the process much harder!

Billions get laundered through off shore shell companies and Wall Street but somehow banks, credit cards companies, the government of Australia, and Apple all worked to make nearly impossible for me to pay for a $20 visa waiver!? And instead I had to spend $200 on a sketchy website that barely worked.

Now just to be clear. I’m opposed to the existence of borders and nation states being able to control who can live where base on a corrupt system of visas. So my minor frustration is nothing in comparison to what a person from Nigeria or Afghanistan faces when they try and travel. It’s still frustrating.

I think it’s promising but the UX and description are something for very technical users not normies

nostr:npub15te6px95354v4ravtqje00ngvpx6xj4ghfahmu3hc3pdvlxu8kkseeqc9m has a new outline about how he is using Claude Code and agentic programming, it’s pretty great.

https://harper.blog/2025/05/08/basic-claude-code/

Use sonnet. It’s only slightly worse but like 5x cheaper. Only use Opus when you really need its system thinking.

Getting proper MCP’s that let the agents fully test and use the app you’re building is much more important than the best model.

I never really paid a ton of attention to the rise and fall of vine, but there’s a podcast detailing it and it’s fascinating.

https://vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/listen

that’s a protocol spec issue, your’e welcome to work on it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+key+delegation

Triggering claude code to run via a github action is super interesting and powerful.

https://www.youtube.com/live/EvtPBaaykdo?si=tWNyQnOso4foApB2&t=3656

I went on stage at WebSumit to talk about rights.social and my new campaign for Social Media Rights.

These aren’t rights we should be expecting the government to provide, instead they are things we should be demanding of every social media system we use and considering when we build new systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzlc3bnaoJI

It’s nip-29 group focused but we’ve been working a lot on relay management https://github.com/verse-pbc/groups_relay

Hi nostr:npub1d3hrup0pe8f24c8dysc4gjh2gythrhvasyqh2wd0plvp3v3cnu5qhsfrtn

Of course!

My understanding is that a lot of the activity on Front Porch Forum are second hand markets. Lots of places use facebook groups, but not in Vermont.

npub.pro does the web hosting, yea! But as far as I know nobody’s connected npub.pro with nip-05 hosting.

I built an app wirh ruby on rails 0.5.0 back in July 2004. It was what lead to working on Odeo. We made an app for sms blasts. Then I got the job building Odeo because I was one of only two people in the San Francisco bay area with rails experience. Later we used the sms stuff combined with blog posting and reading and the dispatch status updates system. And it became Twitter.

The warmest places are mostly the far north, bay of islands is spectacular. But also golden bay and abel tasman is amazing and good for swimming.

The thing with RV costs is that you’re coming at the height of the high season. NZ isn’t cheap in general and less so during the peak of summer.

The west coast of the south island isn’t a warm sunny place to live but it is a spectacular place to visit. You should assume that some part of your trip will get rain during summer.

The best way to explore Aotearoa New Zealand is via campervan, or in your case with an RV if you’ve got kids along. 6 weeks is enough to see a lot of the country. Usually folks go from auckland and head south or Christchurch/Queenstown and go north. Rentals are sometimes cheaper if you start south and end in Auckland. Be sure to go south of Queenstown and north of Auckland too.

Hotels and restaurants are expensive here plus you need a vehicle to get to most places, and with a few exceptions you can sleep in your vehicle anywhere or at free / nearly free in city centres.

Also the hiking trails are amazing. There are 1000 government run huts along the trails where you can stay. They’re great, but you need to make reservations in advance for the great walks, which are worth it. There are also great cycle routes, you can usually rent bikes and get pickup/drop off. They’re worth doing, especially the lake dunston trail.