I had that idea too, but it requires a little maintenance from the user. I basically wanted an automatic solution with no user involvement at all. But could be offered that as an alternative too.

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.

GM 🏔️

Merry Xmas nostr:npub1nmr6w7qk0ta36vxysv77jv3d5rqghfc6d8sez8240rf3gja4vsmsd2yha8

nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpt3mhxue69uhhqun00pujumn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwv9c8qte4vscxgvecv9nxxdpevv6xywp5vdsnqerp8y6nzcfnxvmxzenxvycnsdpn8pjkvetyxvcryct9v4jxvcfexfjkywrzxpjrxenrvgurwqgkwaehxw309amk7apwv3jhyemfva5jucm0d5hszxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejx2un8d9nkjtnrdakj7h0jgy8 what is the URL for your ants search engine?

That sounds wild those ancient alignment theories always get me thinking how much old civilizations really knew. Gonna check it out 👀

looking for a good name for cashu L2 based on payment channels.

nostr:npub1nmr6w7qk0ta36vxysv77jv3d5rqghfc6d8sez8240rf3gja4vsmsd2yha8 Trying to zap you, getting "invalid lightning address". I wonder if WoS is down or something.

Seconded! nostr:npub1nmr6w7qk0ta36vxysv77jv3d5rqghfc6d8sez8240rf3gja4vsmsd2yha8 for alphaama!

Never coded in my life, just looking at code makes me uncomfortable

But GitHub copilot made it so easy that I coded a lil bit to stay on top of the news

It was working fine until it wasn’t

88% of my premium requests for October is already down the drain

What did I do with it?

At first I tried to make my bot better, which broke it beyond repair

Trying to fix it was a borderline traumatising experience and I’m probably going to need therapy to get over it

In the end the fix was just to recover the last commit before it broke and push that instead of my ideal version,

And now it’s working again, with all its limitations, but at least it working

Lesson learned: always use a test account

And also always listen to nostr:npub1nmr6w7qk0ta36vxysv77jv3d5rqghfc6d8sez8240rf3gja4vsmsd2yha8 cause he recommended that I use a test account very early on and I didn’t listen!!

Bom dia meus amores <3

Congratulations! When Madeira?

Call your parents. Tell them that you love them. Do it now.

this is meant to solve "oh fuck there are 69 pokey, which one is thbereal one?" problem, not an app quality problem

You know, I am just realizing that I meant to write Illustrator in my post. Not sure why I wrote InDesign 🤦🏽.

Totally get your point about InDesign. For things like book layouts, you want to work with a solid grid and text styles and let things automatically flow.

ddos vector though

viola! 🎻

I’d subscribe to a live feed of scheduled notes

The default relays should show a bunch of videos. Try to reset the default relays. Then reload the page or switch between Home / Shorts - sometimes the videos are not loaded at first.

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