What should I do with it?

One needs a name

nostr wins if it stops trying to be a twitter clone and starts being the invisible layer underneath apps you actually want to use. like bitchat for location-based messaging, diVine for entertainment, whitenoise for private messaging, zap.stream for streaming, shakespeare for vibe coding, etc.

it wins by unbundling into 50 different apps that all talk to each other, rather than one giant app/corp that traps you. it's all about the ecosystem.

damn the $85k gang might be back

So many times I’ve tried vibe coding, the LLM will randomly change or add or leave legacy features that weren’t even asked for in the prompt. I’d hate to see how many wholly vibe coded apps there are that are just a bowl of spaghetti. Unless you’re auditing every single line every single time with every new change, chances are there will be self-induced bugs and overall slop performance.

when you criminalize all non lethal violence, soy boys and karens take over.

observing Thumper’s mother’s advice and not saying anything today.

Every new conversation Tone seems to be getting more and more apologetic and defeatist towards the spam lol.

I use a function that increments by +1 each time you call it, does that count?

One another day and one more post from nostr:nprofile1qqsxdqfx3t8ywjx5rfx0es0xgqr0hy6mhs6e0q4nm9s37ex4r3n49kgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uuj7u54 proving gay nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsfmrzrk is complete clown lol...!!!

In more positive news, President Donald J. Trump announced earlier today that he will renominate billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut Jared T. Isaacman to serve as the next Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Isaacman was originally nominated for the position at the start of Trump’s second term but saw his nomination withdrawn in late May following an online dispute between Trump and Elon Musk, a close friend and supporter of Isaacman’s appointment. Since then, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been serving as Acting Administrator of NASA.

Wokeism was psyop weapon introduced into the West to combat the rising Occupy Wall Street paradigm.

story time. the recently disclosed nutshell cashu mint vulnerability is as ironic as it gets. it’s very similar to an inscription which is hilarious. as per the cashu spec, a HTLC must have a preimage witness size of 32 bytes.

unfortunately, the mint never checked the size before validating and storing it in its db. we simply overlooked it. since users never paid a fee that depends on the witness size (because we assumed it would be constant), this allowed the attacker to store jpgs of dickbutts in a mints database. for free!

fortunately there’s no messy consensus in cashu. every mint operator dictates their own rules. the fix is simple: now we reject all tokens with a witness that’s too large. those maliciously crafted tokens (of which we haven’t seen any in the wild) can’t be spent anymore.

i must admit, given my recent active engagement in the filter debate, this is probably the funniest exploit possible. i own this one and i’m giggling as i type this. it’s pure comedy.

however, this doesn’t mean the disclosure has gone well. the attacker has proven to be malicious and refused to coordinate with us. instead, he’s putting active mints at risk. this is not how responsible disclosure works. very unprofessional. if you run a mint or know someone who does, update to the latest version (0.18.1) where this issue is fixed. funds were never in danger.

it’s certainly worth a laugh. grill me. this one is simply too good. 😊

thanks to the entire cashu team for their amazing work and their swift reaction. you’ve handled it like pros.

I reported a double-spending bug in Cashu, and they asked me not to disclose it for one year.

Floppy found a DoS vector, received a grant for it, and gave them how much time? Two weeks? Not happy with that, they threatened to attack the mints. What attracts these kind of psycos to the FOSS circles?

My post from normie social media, translated from Finnish by Grok:

The foundation of well-being is economic growth, that is, value creation. This includes intangible forms as well: doing things better with the same resources as before. I also count value creation that GDP as a metric fails to capture or even measures in the wrong direction: all activities valuable to oneself or others that do not involve monetary exchange.

In public discourse, it is sometimes forgotten that the economy does not ultimately grow through consumption but by increasing production, even if the formula called GDP might temporarily show growth. Production grows through investments and work. Due to regulation and taxation, Finland is not an attractive country for these. Hence, zero growth for the past 18 years.

In Finland, there is a vast class dependent on public sector jobs, the tax-funded "third sector," and other income transfers, which is why the situation is unlikely to change.

Follow the money: as a group, those dependent on income transfers will never vote against their own wallets, even when it would be in their long-term interest. Public spending will continue to grow regardless of the government's composition because politicians, following their voters, lack sufficient incentive for cuts.

"Income transfers" is actually a euphemism for taking money from someone else through a unilateral decision, without offering something in return that they would voluntarily pay for. However, it is so tempting that moral and utilitarian justifications for it are always easy to rationalize.

The SDP will likely win the next elections, but will anything change? All Finnish parties are different versions of the SDP, defending the position of established interest groups with slightly different emphases. Well, perhaps we’ll get an exit tax, taxation of "unrealized capital gains," or other factors that work against the interests of productive people and investments.

On a personal level, the clearest solution is to leave the country, but for social and cultural reasons, this may be difficult for many. Finland still has many valuable things: nice people, beautiful nature, heavy metal music, and at least for now, a culture of trust.

Alongside the free flow of information enabled by the internet, Plan B, or Bitcoin, is perhaps the only light in the darkness. Bitcoin enables a parallel economic system where people can create value for each other, engage in trade, and save without someone skimming off the top through taxation or money printing, which makes many good endeavors unprofitable and thus undone.

Now we just need to "orange pill" people, that is, spread the Bitcoin gospel at the grassroots level quickly enough, especially among the youth. If getting wealthy through work and saving feels impossible, let alone starting a family or buying a home, it’s no wonder people fall into hopelessness or bitterness toward the "rich." Bitcoin fixes this.

Bitcoin needs to be accepted as a payment method in as many shops and services as possible so that it becomes easier to offer it as payment between individuals or accept it as salary.

Perhaps gradually, as an individual or even a company, one could break free from banks and centralized payment systems. This would be a welcome change to the current trend, where state and commercial actors increasingly monitor all financial transactions, communications, and other aspects of our digital lives.

At its worst, payment systems have been used as tools for social control even in Western countries, such as against protesters in Canada. Centralized payment systems are also more vulnerable to disruptions and service outages than decentralized ones. With the Cashu protocol, Bitcoin payments can be made between trusted parties even without an internet connection.

As the group of Bitcoin owners grows large enough, it starts to gain societal significance. According to one study, 11% of Finns and 24% of young people own cryptocurrencies, and the number is growing rapidly.

In the United States, political campaigning targeting crypto owners has been prominently visible, and Europe is following suit in this regard. Gradually, so many significant economic and political actors are getting involved that snowball-like growth seems likely.

The total market value of mined gold is still ten times larger than that of Bitcoin. It’s not hard to see Bitcoin surpassing gold: it’s easier to store and transfer. Unlike gold, there is only a very limited number of new Bitcoins left to mine, and there is no supply elasticity.

If investment wealth starts flowing from real estate and securities into Bitcoin, its value could increase a hundredfold or more.

Based on game theory, a rational actor would obviously go immediately to, for example, coinmotion dot com, buy even a little Bitcoin, and consider monthly savings. This is not a paid advertisement or investment advice, but a universal truth.

It's a pleasure. I'm not building them btw. I just follow the discussion closely.

Thanks for being honest and coming clean that you are blowing open op return for L2s you are building.

Knots:

Trying to figure out if we can share databases (media and Nostr events) as well as connection pools, notification services, Tor services, through Android Services that each app can bind to. In that way, the first app starts each service and the others just reuse them.

Because if every Nostr app decides to keep running in the background, we will have issues. We will have to share common services.

Yeah something dead simple and free would be ideal, at least for now

the primary difference between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the US, is the first commits crime to gain money, while the second commits crime to gain power.

MongoDB should not exist

rumors are circulating that nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 will be a speaker at #NostrValley to give a talk on using AI to develop on nostr. 😂