First hard freeze coming tonight… had to harvest it all! Going to be processing for a few days
Ridiculous comment
Some of my readers today noticed that I dislike modern sub-3 minute songs.
My favorite newish rock band is The Warning. It's a rock band of three Mexican women. I've been a public proponent of them for over three years now. They have special potential, and keep growing.
They do some Metallica covers including of those older and longer songs. Naturally, I love it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-stoqv5W8RM&ab_channel=TheWarning
First song up on Spotify… 2:37 😂 they are talented! Will definitely keep listening
Yesterday was wild. Got hit by a freak dust storm an 4:30 PM and got power back around 9:15. The whole thing was surreal and not something any of the locals had ever experienced
https://video.nostr.build/36406214df907d46fbb44cb0c1b913fdc9b9aaaaebc07c162647ff5b0365c974.mp4
Hopefully it’s not too bad for you! Th last couple times my wife and I caught it it has been very mild
nostr has no global source of truth, and that is a good thing
Out of interest, I follow the progress of a lot of other projects similar to nostr, and a couple links surfaced today:
BlueSky has a big "firehose" connection that streams all updates (new posts, reactions, etc) to subscribers. Unsurprisingly, this is difficult to process except on beefy servers with lots of bandwidth. So, one proposed solution is to strip out all that pesky cryptography (signatures, merkle tree data, etc): https://jazco.dev/2024/09/24/jetstream/
And over on Farcaster, keeping their hubs in sync is too difficult, so they want to make all posts globally sequenced, like a blockchain. The details are still being worked out, but I think it's safe to assume there will be a privileged global sequencer who decides on this ordering (and possibly which posts are included at all): https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/193
In my opinion, both of these issues are symptoms of an underlying errant philosophy. These projects both want there to be a global source of truth: A single place you can go to guarantee you're seeing all the posts on a thread, from a particular user, etc. On BlueSky that is https://bluesky.app and on Farcaster that is https://warpcast.com .
Advocates of each of these projects of course would dispute this, pointing out that you could always self-host, or somehow avoid depending on their semi-official infrastructure, but the truth is that if you're not on bluesky.app or warpcast.com, you don't exist, and nobody cares that you don't exist.
nostr has eschewed the concept of global source of truth. You can't necessarily be sure you are seeing everything. Conversations may sometimes get fragmented, posts may disappear, and there may be the occasional bout of confusion and chaos. There is no official or semi-official nostr website, app, or relay, and this is a good thing. It means we are actually building a decentralised protocol, not just acting out decentralisation theatre, or pretending we'll get there eventually and that the ends justify the means.
Back when computers were primitive and professional data-centres didn't exist, it was impossible to build mega-apps like Twitter. Protocols had to be decentralised by default -- there was simply no other way. We can learn a lot by looking back to protocols of yesteryear, like Usenet and IRC, and still-popular protocols like email and HTTP. None of these assume global sources of truth, and they are stronger and better for it, as is nostr.
Turn on zaps, my man!
we were badgers before we were Bitcoiners 🦡👐 #onwisconsin
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Love Madison!
I’m sure some of it is an emotional reaction and I hate to be too harsh because the amount of work the nostr devs are doing is incredible. Sometimes I do wonder if they realize that their non-dev actions almost certainly influence users’ perception of the protocol (both positively and negatively).
Hot take 🌶️: the way some nostr devs are reacting to the spammers is going to drive away more people than the spam itself.
Using an throwaway nostr address to collect lightning payouts via ecash from my space heater.
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Bought some new (old) furniture and found a blast from the past… news paper from 1973, two years after the end of the gold standard, talking about a dollar in crisis. If only they had bitcoin!
First frost tonight. Just making sure Braiins OS is tuned and ready since I haven’t used it in months
Hey nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s
What are your best recs for combating reply guys/bots on damus? Certain relays, tools etc? I know the wot notifications thing, but I don’t want to mute all notifications besides my follows…
I’d try dropping a few of your relays. My relay list is relatively similar and I haven’t had many problems lately, but maybe it’s because I haven’t posted much or reply guy doesn’t care about me 😂
Shohei Ohtani is unbelievable.
Gm #nostr
Next week’s episode with nostr:npub12lzwey2hjc2ce0stwa3ldhg04h93wj263lvdhrf87qfzz9jsggeqwuntw2 will be the final nostr:npub1fpcd25q2zg09rp65fglxuhp0acws5qlphpg88un7mdcskygdvgyqfv4sld episode.
With a recent move and my need to prioritize and focus exclusively on my demanding nonprofit role and family, it’s the best decision for me.
My timeline for returning to anything more “public” in bitcoin is uncertain, but I’ll still be around here on #nostr and probably won’t be able to sit still for too long when it comes to #Bitcoin 😉
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Thanks for everything you’ve contributed nostr:npub164q45vfa8prpl7f63stsl9qm9n22v6julkasjdqxjc8kevchsj0sp42rl3 it’s been great to have this pod continue on as long as it did. You did a great job keeping it going as a much needed counter balance to a lot of the content in the space.
Awesome. I’m in the region too! Would be curious where it is if you want to DM! I don’t know if I’d have time to prep much of a real lesson, but I’ve been around long enough to be able to help with many things nostr or bitcoin!