It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

Any bitcoiners down in the Dominican Republic?

#asknostr

I'm so happy I never donated to wikipedia/CIA

I'm so happy I never donated to wikipedia/CIA

“Happiness is not a destination; it’s found in the moments of a joyful Tuesday.” — Unknown

I don't think you will throw it all out afterwards. It is still a good thing to keep and prototype on as you evolve.

The main drawback I see on replit: it skews you into using their infra. But that doesn't mean you can't hire a developer (or even cursor) to change that. One can develop on replit and commit code to GitHub, which makes you free to use cursor (and also replit) for evolving and making it more robust.

But that doesn't mean you'll throw it all out. It might just mean that your workflow switches to cursor and you work together with developers on the same repo.

A second drawback I see is that replit and cursor are both in one single repo. As your feature set grows it makes it harder for the models to be fully aware of your context. Here again might you may hit a point where you want to hire someone to help you restructure and architect the code. It is not incompatible with the cursor idea i shared above.

If I were in your place I would start by

1) dual development - replit and cursor - because it creates the foundation in GitHub for you to collab with a developer. You'll start using issues, actions etc. You'll gradually turn replit into one part of your dev cycle

2) start looking for a dev that could help you structure the code and architecture.

All in all you don't need to ditch replit completely but you can grow further than it's vanilla usage

There should be a button on the bottom to close. Can you send a screenshot and your phone model?

nostr:npub1qtgmfq7jruka7l7q96gjlk4ar2ljjnsmca6l4l3atwldhyz7q5aqwnh07s nostr:npub1zxu639qym0esxnn7rzrt48wycmfhdu3e5yvzwx7ja3t84zyc2r8qz8cx2y nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424

Quick follow-up guys on the replit webapp I've been working on. Would love your thoughts...

As a 25yr UX Vet that worked with Devs daily, I started to question how 'real' this webapp was. Meaning how much can I actually trust the underlying security and maintainability of the code if I launch it and start to get 100's of users?

Should I view the Replit code as a quick proof of concept and then expect I'll need to hire a dev to actually build it 'properly', 'securely', etc.?

Basically, it doesn't seem real that I can code up this app in replit, launch it, build up a user base, and somehow it will be secure and maintainable when I don't really know the code behind it is correct...

Thanks!

Satoshi and me - looking into a bright Bitcoin Future! 🇭🇺

#Bitcoin #Satoshi #Budapest

My ideas for a Nostr project:

1. Propagstr - check which relays did received your notes.

2. Secondscr - Simple nostr client for your second screen - show notes as they come, no need to refresh.

3. Catsr - just cats (alternatively Dogstr)

4. Preply on Nostr - find a language tutor, pay in sats.

Which is the dumbest?

I know very little about programming as a whole, so I might not be the best to ask, but I'm following a Udemy Python course by Tim Buchalka. I like it, especially as of now when I'm repeating videos easily.

I just backed up & redid some of my little python classes, after not touching it since late July & I didn't forget anything. Woo!

It probably helps that I spent a fair amount of time sitting on the riverbank, reading some very organized code, on my phone. Hahaha! Thank you for that. 💜

tails + xpassxc + sparrow

and borderwallets and/or shamir for backup.

is that bulletproof? no.

is there a better option? also no.

you can't even trust any hw (e. g. intel me) anyway.

It’s all pretty public stuff. Quick search will find it. The shady bits is him forking the trezor code the locking it back down against the open source license. Then took legal action against Foundation for forking CC before he changed the license type.

What's insecure and what have they done in the past? (I'm not trying to defend them, I want to know.)

weak secure elements, bad architecture, UX is suboptimal, the designers of the architecture don’t know much about proper security, and not related but the company behind it has done a lot of shady shit.