Big batch of bolognese. One of the best dishes to cook in bulk. Scales up easily if you’re cooking for a group and also freezes well for easy weeknight meals.

I love making this with ancestral blend beef or venison. The low and slow cooking process makes it super tender.

Probably my favorite pasta dish of all time.

I've been having this idea gestating in my brain for a while, its part of something bigger that I'm trying to conceptualize but the gist of it is:

DVMs can make passive income from residential internet connections.

More and more websites are trying hard to penalize non-residential traffic with tons of catchas or straight up blocking the requests. Which means that you cannot just roll your own vps somewhere and use it as vpn as easily as it used to be.

Or try downloading a youtube video from it. But you would pay couple sats for it. Which means that any pleb that has a raspi or something else running somewhere at home could run a simple DVM that would download the video for the user and send it to them.

This is only the start, there are a lot more things we could do in a distributed way to basically provide a solution to a problem that many have, specially now in the days of AI where scrapping as much data as possible is something people are paying for.

Forget about trying to run LN nodes to earn an income. Just install a package on your umbrel, start9 or whatever platform you are using and start offering services.

And its not just about serving the people on nostr. We can build websites and abstract the DVMs away. We can use the normie world to fuel our parallel economy, using distributed compute to provide services that people want and are willing to pay for them.

And it actually is easier to do it this way than trying to engineer your way around the restrictions. Why pay for 1000s of proxies if you can have 1000s of people participating in your pool of compute?

I'm building this in Q1 if all goes well, but I'm sharing the idea with the world because the important part is it gets built. If anyone wants to take the lead, participate or just brainstorm hit me up!

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

Likes are archaic. How about just comment you enjoy the note. Or zap. Or whatever. Proof of work engagement makes the world a better place whether it’s positive or negative it’s “something.”

> is better displayed closer to the fields.

I agree, in fact I was thinking to add a small help icon near every inputs to explain contextually some details.

Thank for the proposal, but I prefer a more compact design for a such simple form.

Note: Nostr does not have *usernames*, in the sense used by centralized platforms; this is a real important point that the text in the sidebar explains.

Let’s see what he does and I still don’t have Instagram (olas for the win!) but it’s good to hear Zuckerberg saying out loud what governments are doing everywhere to curtail free speech

I have the complete opposite view. Likes are far more informative than 'zaps' (which are a stupid gimmick).

When you are talking to someone and they make a good point you just say something like that (e.g "Good point"). You don't pull out yr wallet and hand them a dollar bill.

Serious question:

Where did democracy go wrong?

#asknostr

Saw a post somewhere about a guy running Bitcoin Core from his SanDisk Extreme SSD. What a great idea. Synced mine up the last few days.

Everywhere I go now, I have a portable node. Takes a few seconds to sync, and just plugs in via USB-C and don't have to trust anyone else's node ever.

I've toyed with using my own electrum server served out on the open internet, but I much prefer using a home node.