I work on nostr because it has a beautiful trade-off balance. It avoids many of the challenges of P2P whilst maintaining decentralisation and censorship resistance.

I have a visceral and emotional attraction to P2P. Yet I want to selectively reveal myself to others and the world and protect myself from bad actors.

I do not want to choose between inviting (pseudo/an)onymous peers to connect directly to hardware in my own home and limiting their ability to communicate with me or access my content.

I do not want to expose my home network to the potential security vulnerabilities of running various community driven P2P software.

I do not want to commit the time and head space required to manage these services and my local internet cannot cannot meet the bandwidth and reliability expected in today's world.

and fertile soil for lampooning Bitcoiners

I am a cyperpunk because I believe that direct human interaction, devoid of mediated and control by a centralised authority, is fertile soil for creativity, vitality and human flourishing

I hope it was a good encounter.

Lent is a difficult time for follows, as the Christians are often fasting from social media.

Except for the bad Catholics, like yours truly.

I will criticize my nation (actually nations, since I'm a dual national) to help guide it's direction, but I won't be disloyal or treasonous to it. When it comes down to it, despite my musings and disfavor of past actions, I'm always on "our side". Even though I have mixed feelings about nationalism, I would never assist the enemy. Critique of my nation is not sympathy for the enemy. I just thought I should be clear on that point.

With that out of the way: fuck the government 🤣

Not if you put them in an omelette

do double yolked egg produce twin chickens? 🤔

4pm. Not much later, at least I try. It's tough to get sleep in any later case... 🙈

I saw two yolks from one egg. Is it lucky for me? :)

4pm. A temporary stop. A brief pause. Moving dishes from desk to kitchen. Wiping some dust off display, keyboard, printer. The sudden, urgent need to cleanse. And a demand for more coffee, same as urgent, while evening traffic's getting stronger.

11am, closing in on noon. The pale sun of the morning vanished behind dense clouds. No rain yet, but backyards are quiet like in tense expectations. (Dizxy. Still tired. Trying to spot some birds, no luck so far.)

What IDE/editor do you use for Rust?

#rustlang

We aren't surprised that most blockchain nodes do the same, are we?

Except Mina, but even it supports so-called "archive nodes".

Yes, they should.

I like the custom-broadcasting model, where you can set your broadcasting target-relays in the relay. Then you create little clusters of relays, that talk to each other, and everyone just needs one and a backup.

I kinda feel like this is being pushed too much on the user, through the client relay settings, but it's too advanced for them. They should just say, "these two relays and broadcasting from the first one", with broadcasting=TRUE as the default.

In the interest of censorship resistance, this should be the default (and opt-out) behaviour. One shouldn't have to get through all sorts of hoops to get heard.

Okay, but #Nostrrr says I have it set like this, which reflects what I set in #Nostrudel with the in/outbox and that's different on the #Metadata page.