👏 well said. You would probably very much like a 10-day Vipassana meditation course - no phones, no internet, no talking for 10 days straight. Good luck with the 21 day challenge 💪
Having a good physical intake by eating healthy, exercising, sleeping, but then it gets offset by the daily mental intake of video ads that stir up the mind and plant seeds and ideas in it that one wouldn't otherwise consume or expose themselves to if they had a choice. Ublock origin for the win. Nostr for the win. 💪
When people write blog articles, often at times, weeks or months after publishing an article, they update the text, add hyperlinks, or place internal links to the already published article. Is this possible to do on nostr's long-form content articles? Once the changes made to an article are submitted, are the changes updated and visible on nostr and showing only the latest version of the article that an author submits?
#asknostr
Ah, so Yalda Night is like Nowruz, but marking the start of winter, wonderful. Yalda Night, Saadi, Molana, learned something new today 🙏
I am sorry, I should have said do you have a rug design of Rumi the great poet and a quote or poem of his.
Thanks for the lesson the styles - geometric, Tabriz, Kerman. And with your style being geometric, the pomegranate tree rug design makes even more sense now!
Wow 👏 Pegah these rug designs are fantastic. I thought the pomegranate tree rug and the symbolism behind it was impressive 👍 Is there a rug of the great poet and one of his poems or quotes in your collection of rugs?
This book's reviews look really good and people are stating it's concisely written, which means high wisdom per word ratio.
Could you share mor about what you thought makes it a helpful framework? I am going to start reading it, but also enjoy seeing what others draw and conclude from different books.
😂
There was this Thai restaurant where one could choose the spiciness of their meal on a scale of one to five with five being the spiciest. But there was also a sixth choice which most of the customers weren't aware of. The waiters called it masochist spicy. Don't do this at home.
Years later, in a cafe, a friend casually mentions to a group of us that spicy is not a taste, but pain, and went on to further explain what that means. The entire scene and our reactions resembled the Snatch dairy scene.
https://youtu.be/iEQQ13jdccc?si=CZvuZFSgJZs9FJPy
And then, after that scene and a couple weeks of research and denial, it finally sunk in: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami are the five tastes detected by the tongue. Spicy is detected by a pain receptor, more accurately by the trigeminal nerve.
If you press and hold the enter key, the emoji icon should appear next to the enter key.
A visual diagram of nostr, clients, relays, events, and users. And another equivalent visual diagram, but using something symbolic to represent nostr, clients, relays, events, and users which most people can use to more easily wrap their head around nostr.
Like for example showing the relations between concepts like the internet, browser type, websites or highways, cars, fuel type to show the relations between concepts like nostr, clients, relays, etc.
This is really good.👏 These adjustments, if implemented, are going to take the mobile experience to a whole new level.
Wasn't aware that Amber detects and works with websites as well, not just native apps. Just now saw that it does on https://nostrudel.ninja/#/signin/. That's great!
Which key management tool do you use and recommend for browsers on Android? Nos2x is great for browsers on desktop and Amber for Android apps.
#HOWDONOSTR - How do I use Nostr?
Nostr is much, much more than a Twitter alternative. Nostr allows us to have portal digital social identities that we can use in various applications and capacities. For this next iteration of #HOWDONOSTR I'll focus on a few of the applications that I use and the various ways that I use Nostr.
Since we know that Nostr uses a public and private key pair and keeping our private key safe is of utmost importance, we'll start this off with the basics and then move on to relays, before discussing applications.
* On my desktop, to login to and utilize the various applications, I'll use the Alby web browser extension to manage my private key. This works with Chrome, Brave, Firefox, etc. You can install it here: https://getalby.com
* On my Android phone, I'll use the Amber application to keep my private key safe when using native applications that support it. You can download Amber here: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber
* I'll also use the Kiwi web browser for accessing many web applications. With the Kiwi browser, I'll use the Nostr Connect extension because it's more lightweight than Alby. You can download Kiwi Browser for Android here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser
You can install the extension here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nostr-connect/ampjiinddmggbhpebhaegmjkbbeofoaj
Nostr allows us to be in-charge of our digital social identity and allows us to be in-charge of our entire social graph. We can accomplish this by running our own relay. I do this in two parts.
* I run a private local relay on my Android phone. This allows me to easily write offline notes and save all of my drafts to my phone where they are not accessible by anyone but myself. I do this with the Citrine application. You can download it here: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine
* I also run a publicly accessible relay that only my wife and myself and have write access. That means that no one else can save their social information to my relay, but everyone in the world can access my relay to read our notes and events. I use the Nostream relay for this. You can get started with Nostream here: https://github.com/cameri/nostream
Do I need to run two relays? Maybe not, but I do, because I can. Nostr allows me to easily do these more technical things if I want to do them, allowing me to be fully in control of my entire social graph and social identity.
Now that I have my private key being secured and managed and my notes and events are stored on my personal relays, I'm ready to start using various Nostr applications!
My number one daily driver is Amethyst for Android. It allows me to login via Amber to keep my private key safe. It allows me to easily use my private relay that runs on my smartphone. I use Amethyst because of the number of features that it supports, integrating with many other Nostr clients and various aspects of the protocol. From AI generated feeds of notes, to a bitcoin powered marketplace, to live streams and more. However, Amethyst does suffer from some stability issues and causes me headaches from time to time. Because of this, I also use Primal. Primal is smooth and stable. It lacks some of the extras that Amethyst has, but if I want an experience that just works, I choose Primal.
Nostr really shines on the web. Most of Nostr's Other Stuff clients are not native applications for Android and iOS, they're web applications - regular websites powered by Nostr. Remember, to securely use these applications, you'll need one of the web browsers and extensions that I mentioned above. Alternatively, you can also use many of these with nsec.app. This website runs a Nostr nsecBunker in your web browser, allowing this application to function as a secure key management application.
* Snort.social or Iris.to are popular clients, but not performing for me as well as they used to, so now I'm using Primal.net and Coracle.social more and more. Primal is very stable and simple, but Coracle is loaded with features that keep bringing me back. Coracle's new custom feeds feature is a game changer, however the UI is a bit much and may seem overly complicated.
* For audio chats, I listen to NostrNests.com where people chat with friends and Plebchain Radio hosts their weekly podcast. I used to do weekly shows here every Monday, but it's been a while for me.
* Zap.stream is a Twitch or YouTube alternative for video consumption. Here, I watch friends and streamers here, interacting with them live, chatting, zapping, and consuming all that they have to offer. Sometimes it's weekly podcast shows, sometimes it's gamers playing video games, or sometimes it's just developers hacking away at code during a live coding session.
* I use Highlighter.com for reading long form notes or blog posts, but I also use Highlighter for sometimes writing my own. Content creators can also use Highlighter to create subscription tiers, similar to Patreon. I don't use that feature, but it's nice to have for those looking to fund their content in other ways similar to what exists elsewhere on the web.
* I use listr.lol to manage my Nostr lists, to help me organize npubs that I follow.
* I use metadata.nostr.com to restore my Nostr profile, including my contact list, if a rogue client accidentally deletes or alters my contact list in a way that I didn't intend. This does happen from time to time. We're early.
* I use w3.do to create Nostr powered shortlinks for sharing with others.
* I use Wavlake to listen to music, supporting artists in a value for value manner. I use this application on the web and I use this application on my Android phone too.
* I use Shopstr.store to sell items, such as old Android phones. I've sold 3 via this Nostr powered marketplace.
* Tunestr.io is a website similar to Zap.stream, but it's specifically for live musical performances.
* I use Zap.store to manage applications on my Android phone as an alternative to Google Play or Obtainium.
I use these applications the most, but many more applications exist across the Nostr ecosystem. I encourage you to check out https://www.nostrapps.com from time to time and see what's available.
Thank you very much for this guide Derek. Decided to finally start using Amber as a result of it, and your Android experience is right on!
I've got many questions, and guides like this one, as well as the #asknostr and #howdonostr hastags, and websites like nostr.net help me answer many of them, but new questions just keep popping up, so I am hoping you could share your thoughts on some of them.
Which client did you use to write this post and other kind1 posts-this-long in general? Guessing the web version of some client.
If you were to write a kind23 post today, which client would you choose to do it with and why?
The code ![]() is used in editors for adding images inside of kind23 posts. But what code can be used for adding image captions such as a center aligned hyperlinked text "Photo by Alice" right underneath an image?
#HOWDONOSTR - How do I use Nostr?
Nostr is much, much more than a Twitter alternative. Nostr allows us to have portal digital social identities that we can use in various applications and capacities. For this next iteration of #HOWDONOSTR I'll focus on a few of the applications that I use and the various ways that I use Nostr.
Since we know that Nostr uses a public and private key pair and keeping our private key safe is of utmost importance, we'll start this off with the basics and then move on to relays, before discussing applications.
* On my desktop, to login to and utilize the various applications, I'll use the Alby web browser extension to manage my private key. This works with Chrome, Brave, Firefox, etc. You can install it here: https://getalby.com
* On my Android phone, I'll use the Amber application to keep my private key safe when using native applications that support it. You can download Amber here: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber
* I'll also use the Kiwi web browser for accessing many web applications. With the Kiwi browser, I'll use the Nostr Connect extension because it's more lightweight than Alby. You can download Kiwi Browser for Android here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser
You can install the extension here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nostr-connect/ampjiinddmggbhpebhaegmjkbbeofoaj
Nostr allows us to be in-charge of our digital social identity and allows us to be in-charge of our entire social graph. We can accomplish this by running our own relay. I do this in two parts.
* I run a private local relay on my Android phone. This allows me to easily write offline notes and save all of my drafts to my phone where they are not accessible by anyone but myself. I do this with the Citrine application. You can download it here: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine
* I also run a publicly accessible relay that only my wife and myself and have write access. That means that no one else can save their social information to my relay, but everyone in the world can access my relay to read our notes and events. I use the Nostream relay for this. You can get started with Nostream here: https://github.com/cameri/nostream
Do I need to run two relays? Maybe not, but I do, because I can. Nostr allows me to easily do these more technical things if I want to do them, allowing me to be fully in control of my entire social graph and social identity.
Now that I have my private key being secured and managed and my notes and events are stored on my personal relays, I'm ready to start using various Nostr applications!
My number one daily driver is Amethyst for Android. It allows me to login via Amber to keep my private key safe. It allows me to easily use my private relay that runs on my smartphone. I use Amethyst because of the number of features that it supports, integrating with many other Nostr clients and various aspects of the protocol. From AI generated feeds of notes, to a bitcoin powered marketplace, to live streams and more. However, Amethyst does suffer from some stability issues and causes me headaches from time to time. Because of this, I also use Primal. Primal is smooth and stable. It lacks some of the extras that Amethyst has, but if I want an experience that just works, I choose Primal.
Nostr really shines on the web. Most of Nostr's Other Stuff clients are not native applications for Android and iOS, they're web applications - regular websites powered by Nostr. Remember, to securely use these applications, you'll need one of the web browsers and extensions that I mentioned above. Alternatively, you can also use many of these with nsec.app. This website runs a Nostr nsecBunker in your web browser, allowing this application to function as a secure key management application.
* Snort.social or Iris.to are popular clients, but not performing for me as well as they used to, so now I'm using Primal.net and Coracle.social more and more. Primal is very stable and simple, but Coracle is loaded with features that keep bringing me back. Coracle's new custom feeds feature is a game changer, however the UI is a bit much and may seem overly complicated.
* For audio chats, I listen to NostrNests.com where people chat with friends and Plebchain Radio hosts their weekly podcast. I used to do weekly shows here every Monday, but it's been a while for me.
* Zap.stream is a Twitch or YouTube alternative for video consumption. Here, I watch friends and streamers here, interacting with them live, chatting, zapping, and consuming all that they have to offer. Sometimes it's weekly podcast shows, sometimes it's gamers playing video games, or sometimes it's just developers hacking away at code during a live coding session.
* I use Highlighter.com for reading long form notes or blog posts, but I also use Highlighter for sometimes writing my own. Content creators can also use Highlighter to create subscription tiers, similar to Patreon. I don't use that feature, but it's nice to have for those looking to fund their content in other ways similar to what exists elsewhere on the web.
* I use listr.lol to manage my Nostr lists, to help me organize npubs that I follow.
* I use metadata.nostr.com to restore my Nostr profile, including my contact list, if a rogue client accidentally deletes or alters my contact list in a way that I didn't intend. This does happen from time to time. We're early.
* I use w3.do to create Nostr powered shortlinks for sharing with others.
* I use Wavlake to listen to music, supporting artists in a value for value manner. I use this application on the web and I use this application on my Android phone too.
* I use Shopstr.store to sell items, such as old Android phones. I've sold 3 via this Nostr powered marketplace.
* Tunestr.io is a website similar to Zap.stream, but it's specifically for live musical performances.
* I use Zap.store to manage applications on my Android phone as an alternative to Google Play or Obtainium.
I use these applications the most, but many more applications exist across the Nostr ecosystem. I encourage you to check out https://www.nostrapps.com from time to time and see what's available.
Excellent guide with recommendations on which nostr apps (aka clients) to use for specific things (aka use cases) like music, streaming, writing, security, and more. 🙏nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424
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Could you share your reasoning behind this suggestion?
When it's summer and the days are hot, eating water-rich fruits and vegetables can be very refreshing.
But what about the pesticides? Up to 100% of pesticide residues can be removed. How?
- Put fruits or vegetables in a bowl
- Pour water and salt in
- Let it all soak for 15 minutes
- Rinse all the salt off before eating
How much water and salt? A 10% salt solution, meaning one part salt, nine parts water.
Source
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-make-your-own-fruit-and-vegetable-wash/
#pesticides #nutrition #fruits #health #wellbeing
For those looking to write blog articles on nostr, here is an excellent guide on how to do it and what tools are available do it with. 🔟
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This belongs in this thread.
On children by Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.