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https://youtu.be/66g0NQuGPgE noticed there is not enough Chris here on nostr, gotta share more…

Hi nostr:nprofile1qqsrkl7gyds37xh2af37uwlknvjm32ska3hgr5d0cwgzdqy0ux2r2ncpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t026wkc9 , thank you for trying, it’s very helpful what you are doing and your work is very inspiring.

After reading your website I’m thinking about building my own ZeroSentinel nano on a pi zero 2w but got a couple of doubts that I’m sure your knowledge can kindly answer.

I’m already running unbound+pihole on a pretty ancient white MacBook, it is all it does 24/7 at the moment.

My will is to replace it with the ZSnano, but I am wondering if I can also add the pihole to your setup since I find it very useful.

I’m using it since already 3 years so I’m accustomed to its ux and I find easy to add lists and domains i want to filter out. Will it kill the raspy or interfere with something?

Second, since the MacBook will be lifted from the dns job, i would like to repurpose it as a full stack ZS for the other stuff like wireguard, canary+nostr dms, monitoring+metering, failsafe.

Do you think it will work or the 2009 MacBook is too old for the tasks? It has a core2duo@2GHz and 4GB ram, it is currently running a xfce debian bookworm and the unbound+pihole.

Thank you for your patience and the great job you’re doing to keep us informed and secure on the net. Onward! 💪🏼👌🏼🫶🏼

Yep reliable info about food is quite hard to get, despite being so important for our wellbeing, that’s why I find your idea of a virtual living room very interesting! I honestly am not a fan of screens and I have a very mixed schedule but if content will be available also after the live stream it would be easier to follow for sure… keep us posted in case! 🫶🏼🍀

This would be super cool! I am the only vegan-bitcoiner-and-nostr-based guy in my place, would be nice to feel less alone for one time! 😅

It’s a pleasure, your dishes always look so delicious 😊 btw I tried some raw cuisine in the past and also used to go for my lunch break in a raw vegan restaurant close to the office where i was working in milan and i really loved their food… but i gotta admit i’m a huge lover of the italian kitchen and especially i’m a super huge giga lover of pasta, I can’t live without it! I use wholemeal pasta only but at lunch i must have it. I usually have a nice fresh mixed salad with seasonal veggie and seeds dressed with a bit of evo oil and apple vinegar or fresh lemon juice but after that i need my spaghetti/linguine/tagliatelle (vegan ones with no eggs but with added spirulina)… I also love to cook pasta 🍝 and often my friends call me to cook it for them because it is super tasty the way i cook it… i’m the master of pasta for my friends hehehe :) …in the end i can say i have a mixed raw-cooked approach to food, I like both worlds but would like to increase a bit the raw part for some things, without removing the cooked part. I also should eat more fruits, which i basically eat only in the morning… will see, for the next year i’ll try to accommodate these changes… let’s see what happens… your posts are very inspiring! 😉💪🏼🍝🥗🫐👌🏼🫶🏼🍀

I've been doing some research on the biggest mistakes we Bitcoiners made as a community — and obviously we got very complacent over time.

Instead of listening to podcast hopium and alienating people with "have fun staying poor" narratives, we should've focused on game theory and patched up at least some of the holes.

It was always inevitable that Bitcoin was going to get attacked, and things like having close to 100% of nodes run on a single implementation was just silly in hindsight.

People are doing more harm than good when posting charts of hashrate going vertical without the context that 2 pools (Foundry and Antpool) are close to 50% of hashrate and for more than 98% of cases, pools, not miners decide which transactions get added to the blockchain.

You had most of the Bitcoin community cheering price over payment share; we welcomed ETFs as victory. Paper share rose, self-custody fell.

The entire community also cheered Square's surveilled "Bitcoin payments" where every payment generates identity-linked transaction data: buyer, location, device, and amount.

All transactions flow through Square/Cash App's KYC/AML perimeter, meaning both sides of the payment are verified.

That data fuels risk scoring, fraud models, blacklist propagation, and targeted marketing.

Exactly this surveillance value is Square's enduring moat, not the 1% fee.

We just got too complacent.

I'd say the 5 main mistakes we Bitcoiners made are:

1. Letting arbitrary data compete with money on the base layer (witness discount abetted it). For Medium-of-Exchange you need predictable fees; underpriced junk data is a Denial-of-Service subsidy.

2. Treating privacy as an "expert mode". That guarantees surveillance wins by default. Make privacy invisible and automatic.

3. Under-investing in operational safety (backups, recovery, liquidity UX). Normal users pick custodians when scared.

4. Relying on norms over policy. In a low Gross Consent Product world, policy beats culture. If your mempool policies are naïve, adversaries will price you out.

5. Ignoring perimeter levers (app stores, banks, clouds). If you don't plan redundant routes, the other side will plan your failure.

The uncomfortable truth is that Bitcoin's defense can't be "hope users pick hard mode".

Defaults decide outcomes.

If Bitcoin wants to be mass Medium-of-Exchange, privacy, finality, recoverability, and predictability must be invisible and automatic — and the perimeter must be treated as hostile by default.

Until then, paper wrappers will dominate, regulators will "clarify", and L1 will be priced as store-of-value with supervised access, not as everyday cash.

The good news: all of that is fixable — but only if it's designed, not preached.

“privacy, finality, recoverability, and predictability must be invisible and automatic”

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“the foundation of science is based on the humility to learn, not the arrogance of expertise.”

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/do-the-anomalies-of-3i-atlas-flag-alien-technology-or-an-unfamiliar-interstellar-iceberg-cc31269ba3a8

😵‍💫 GM bday hangover

Timeless delicacy.

Spaghetti pomodoro e basilico. 🍝

Buon appetito! 😋

[sorry for the bad pic, was too hungry]

Sometimes I feel like saying "Lord, I just don't care" but you've got the love I need to see me through.

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Saturday night launch. 🚀

Nostr's UX problem isn't a secret.

30-day retention trends to 0%. Daily active users stuck at ~10k. Posts disappear. Followers vanish when you switch apps. Every app feels like beta software.

I've spent 2+ years arguing that great UX wins. So I designed a meta-study, threw a few hundred dollars at Claude, and put together what the evidence indicates.

tl;dr: Ship working experiences, then add features.

🔗 https://nostr-ux.com

6 critical patterns backed by 100+ citations:

‣ Onboarding, content discovery, core interactions

‣ Performance, progressive complexity, cross-client consistency

‣ Anti-patterns to avoid + validation checklists

I'm not a designer, but I know what good looks like. This is opinionated, evidence-based, and focused on retention.

What am I missing? What did I get wrong?

Send PRs this way: https://github.com/shawnyeager/nostr-ux-research

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“Great UX is the gateway to the protocol’s power.”

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Replying to Avatar Shawn

Nostr can't be censored. Bitcoin can't be debased. Lightning routes payments in milliseconds—faster than Venmo, cheaper than Visa.

The hardest technical problems are solved. 17 years after the Bitcoin whitepaper, the foundation is proven. The protocols work. The products we build on them have to work just as well.

Freedom tech that wins on merit, not martyrdom. Products that solve customer problems first, with self-sovereignty as the inevitable result.

New essay on what that looks like in practice:

https://shawnyeager.com/sovereignty-without-sacrifice

Thank you to Steven DeLorme, nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct8vaezumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejz7qpqwf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgshcqyxr, nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7mnjv4kxz7fwvvkhxar9d3kxzu3wdejhgtcprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qqsgafy9ye4j9p2x8vfmlq6equtpcg4m8ks7v545g0d3f7wwueeq5scz9g5a6, nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqg9kd0ncm2yej92y5pwr52mrmgw3tmh736dphd4yx60cv95xt0tt0srltjq5, nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgqgzx3h, nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qpqreezn2ctrrg736uqj7mva9lsuwv0kr5asj4vvkwxnrwlhvxf98tslayt89, and nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq37amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwfjkccte9ejx2un9ddex7umn9ekk2tcqyqlhwrt96wnkf2w9edgr4cfruchvwkv26q6asdhz4qg08pm6w3djg3c8m4j for feedback on early drafts.

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“Winning means marketing to people who just want better payments, better social media, better financial tools—who discover the inherent benefits after they’re already using the product”

Yes!!!

Let’s build better UX than the incumbents of today and deliver better solutions to the users.

What common people are used to use everyday multiple times a day? How do they interact with those tools?

They don’t realize they’re under surveillance, they just realize comfort and convenience.

Let the UX be the trojan horse for freedom!

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Gotta admit it was very tasty, being italian I love to cook pasta and I always love to experiment vegan recipes with what I got in the kitchen …usually I’m pretty good at it, my friends always call me to cook for them hehe 😉

Wholemeal spaghetti, garlic, oil and chili pepper, with lemon scent, battered Pantelleria capers and raisins and fresh basil leaves.

Buon appetito nostr! 🍝

#foodstr #italian #vegan

Yep a not-frozen version to bring around when out of home would be very cool! Yes i have a slow juicer since long, I love to prepare juices with fruit and vegetables in the morning :) I even broke 2 experimenting what i can put inside to press hahaha 😅 btw i don’t have telegram and I don’t speak Deutsche sadly :( …the book idea is nice but in the meantime maybe you could consider start writing your recipes as long form kind here on nostr 😉

Oh i see, so it is frozen, i thought i can put one or two in a bag and stroll around and just add water when needed :) thanks a lot for your detailed answer you’re always very helpful 🙏🏼 i got a cold press slow juicer so i will def make them as soon as i buy some fresh ginger and turmeric 👌🏼

Do you have a website/blog/something with your recipe?

Wow that’s a process! Interesting though, I always wondered if those things were edible since I was a kid (and told not to eat them….) thanks for answering me! Btw i’m not a big fan of nuts in general, I prefer juicy stuff, that’s why your pic tickled my curiosity, thought you found a way to make nuts juicier hehe 😉

Oh true didn’t think about that… maybe with a pinch of sugar it is possible 🤷🏼‍♂️ anyway curious to know what you’re preparing, looking forward for it! Have a nice Sunday ahead 😊

Sorry but only Italians can understand this.

🚨CENTODICIOTTOOOO!!! LFG!!! 🥳

https://youtu.be/jekcn2MsDew

https://youtu.be/E_7i4hbW3Rs A seminal Italian album, a masterpiece that fuse together synthpop, rock, orchestral, new wave and progressive sounds with powerful lyrics that bring high poetry and societal issues to any listener with acute irony. With this album, in 1981 Battiato brought with detailed simplicity the absurdity of modern life, of consumerism, what we plebs would call the fiat world. Critics still valid more than 40 years after its release. But it is at the same time an ode to the richness of human nature, a declaration of love and genuine admiration for the beautiful variety and capabilities of human beings in every expression. An album impregnated with citations, a deep voyage into art and culture from all over the world that still resonates today. “And it's beautiful to get lost in this spell” (Ed è bellissimo perdersi in questo incantesimo). Grazie Franco.

I’m more attracted by Rust, sorry 🤷🏼‍♂️

No tracking, no algos, no “personalized” suggestions, no monthly fees, no contracts,100% pure sound. My 2025 player is from 1998 but feels like 2140 and it’s supercool! 💽😎🤙🏼