While things like Bluetooth or USB are typically safe, still better to avoid them. That's why I use my Jade in stateless mode, no BT version of the firmware, and via QR.

Happy Birthday!

That looks pretty good. I'm not a traditional cake guy either... maybe carrot cake. I'd rather have so many other types of desserts.

That's so wild... I didn't even know that could be done in a web browser (not using the app).

Or, they are only going to buy used ones. 😄

Good to hear! Maybe I haven't been following closely enough, but do you mind sharing what happened? Curious how they got control... or inside job, etc. 🙏

We're gonna win... it might just take a while (and another halving).

#asknostr So, on nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgzn9kpsmllqnsf7wh5tz3wgy4cclsftqqplv8tpayrhwgw8llunevgnmdf3 regarding zaps, if I want to set/choose the zap amount, do I need to remove the default? When I click the lightning bolt, it usually just sends that default and doesn't ask (though it has sent a different amount once, and I can't figure out why).

I think most of them left 𝕏 because they were upset it was no longer censoring views they don't like. I think they'd have a pretty rough time on a true free-speech platform.

A couple of times on 𝕏, I've gotten 'popular' enough to get a taste, and it is hard to imagine. You go from zero interaction, to wanting some interaction, to a fire-hose (in my case) of hundreds of interactions you can't possibly respond to, or not even sure you're seeing them all. When you get into thousands all the time, I suppose you're just picking a few here and there to read and interact with. I think I'd have a hard time with that.

I miss a lot of things about San Francisco... but I really hope all the messed up governance can get fixed. (Though I've ended up in a similar mess again, just on a smaller scale here in Victoria, BC. LOL)

Sounds like every popular account's worst nightmare. LOL

It is really the 1/0 thinking that is the problem. You don't have to think Russia is 100% right, or the 'good guy' to see who has overall been in the wrong (and unfortunately, IMO, that has been the USA).

Yeah, I think so. I don't know the true paid/unpaid impact, but that seems to be the thinking. I'm a paid account over there... and not just to rank better, but I'm truly grateful for what Elon did (no matter his true motives). It was world-changing, so unless it gets really ruined someday, I'm a supporter. So, not trying to be down on X at all!

But, I also see the value in Nostr being successful, so really excited in what is going on here. I'm an old-school blogger, hugely into podcasting, etc. We have to move the world back towards our own sites, feeds, etc. and not a few platforms (no matter how good/useful they've been in some ways).

I mean, almost literally here, right? If you have no followers and create a new note, does anyone see it?

But, this isn't all that much different than X, really. I've been active there since like 2011, and only recently have my 'solo' posts been noticed much if at all.

I spent years responding in conversations of people who are seen, and thus I was seen, and slowly picked up followers. I suspect it is similar here.

My understanding is that a physical Kindle hardware device was needed to get the download of files to work. Maybe there are still other ways. But, you need the file to convert w/ calibre. (It used to work... haven't tried it recently.)

I did this years ago (after grad school), so I've got a copy (somewhere) of the most expensive stuff we have in digital form. Hopefully I'll never need them if Amazon doesn't pull any funny business. They are much more useful to me in digital form, and I have all the notes and highlighting, search, etc.

Yeah, I kind of wish I hadn't gone digital in terms of ownership... but dozens of super-heavy boxes, and like 4 big bookshelves in small apartments/condos was getting to be too much.

True (re: centralized DNS). But, I don't know why they didn't just do DNS text record. Pushing it to a web server just introduces a lot of complexity (unless they intend to do more with it a simple txt record can't handle?).

And, agree... though I guess it at least links someone to some kind of human readable domain-name. But, anyone just normally interacting probably won't notice the difference between steve@nostrpleb.com and steve@n0strpleb.com.

I'm not really sure what the proper solution is, though.

Oh, thanks! Just been trying out both Primal and Iris** so don't know what all the UI elements mean yet. Thanks re: CORS. Maybe a lot of people have their own domain NIP-05 setup and CORS not functioning. It's just driving me crazy the discrepancy between what I'm seeing in Pirmal vs Iris. :)

(** And, another mystery... as your response didn't show up in Primal notifications. I suppose because the default Iris relays haven't talked to the relays I have setup on Primal? I have so much to learn.)

Hehe, not from working (yet), but running all my own tech.

I (and a couple friends/partners) used to run our own pretty-much-everything IT related in-house, and then I went to outsourcing almost everything, and now am returning to some self-hosting of some things.