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Another tip I learnt for interior house painting that works well, is if you have plasterboard/drywall ceilings and are going to paint them white, mix in a cup of the wall colour to the can of ceiling white to help soften the contrast with the walls. Still looks white, but it makes a difference in the feel of the room.

Good quality painters tape, like 3M. timing is key when removing the tape. Not too soon, not too long.

I don't think there's that many bots/ai agents on here yet. There's a few repost boys for news feeds and things from other networks, but the ones I've seen are mostly declared as such.

I suspect Nostr hasn't quite reached the critical mass to attract the hoards of spam bots, but I suspect this is coming.

it could be an interesting experiment to run up a non spammy agent that knows "how to Nostr" and see how it goes.

Happy new year Nostr people

Tomorrow is 2025, which means we will be about equal distance in time between 2000 and 2050. It's obvious and yet shocking at the same time.

For some reason looking at this note on primal, I don't see the link to the video. It is showing up in Amethyst though.

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I sent another +60,000 sats today as a test…

(And might have even broken a few things 😬)

Day 3 of my zap-vertising experiment:

1ļøāƒ£What I did

2ļøāƒ£What I learned

3ļøāƒ£What comes next

Let’s recap:

On day 1 I sent 60,000 sats - primarily large quantities (on average +300 Sats)...

My thinking was that if I was the top zap on trending notes, I’d get a lot of visibility.

I ended up growing by 87 followers.

I posted a full day 1 breakdown, and that note started getting a ton of traction on it’s own.

Since I was gaining momentum from that alone I figured I’d pause the zapping experiment until that died down… thus, no day 2 recap.

Today I went for a very different strategy…

1ļøāƒ£ What I did:

This time I went for Quantity > Quality

I sent (or tried to send) +6000 zaps at about 8-10 sats each (my goal was 60,000 sats total).

Truthfully, I have no idea how many sats were actually sent…

A lotta shit broke.

First, I was using zapadd.com to send bulk zaps

This was quite unreliable. I think I lost probably 30k-40k sats in the process.

I have no idea how many zaps were ultimately sent but I think a few thousand.

I will say, the developer who built it was super helpful with support and did offer to refund everything.

According to him, this might have caused some issues with the primal wallets today.

I’m not technical and have no idea what actually happened other than shit didn’t work and people couldn’t zap me (and maybe many others) for a while today.

In terms of the message - I went with ā€œsending loveā€ instead of ā€œtesting somethingā€

Optimizing for vibes.

Results:

Gained 152 new followers… about 395 sats per follow… ~$0.37

SOLID.

2ļøāƒ£What I learned:

Value 4 Value.

What really got the most traction on my account was my recent note.

And that note cost a whopping 0 sats.

Good content wins.

Regardless of where this zapvertising experiment goes, there is no replacement for good content.

Learning numero dos:

Nostr is such an infant.

The infrastructure feels so new and delicate.

It’s kinda wild that there is no reliable way to allocate $50 to growth.

What excites me the most is that I can help to shape that future…

Picture this - it’s only a matter of time before there are companies on here that want to allocate 10,000,000 sats per day to growth and exposure…

I want to help shape what that system could look like.

(P.S. - I’m looking for some technical counterparts to help build here! Slide in my messages if that's you.)

3ļøāƒ£ What comes next:

Something I haven’t tested yet is direct linking in zaps.

I think these will probably come off a bit more spammy - especially if it's straight to a product page…

I’m working through some creative ideas to make it so it’s still well received

(The ā€œsending loveā€ was very well received today)

What I really want to see is if I send 100,000 sats, and each zap has a direct link, how many clicks will that drive?

Will keep you all posted 🫔🫔🫔

Interesting experiment

Cloudflare, a leading internet security company, has devised a unique and visually captivating method to generate randomness for encryption purposes, known as the "Wall of Entropy." Located in their San Francisco office, this system uses about 100 lava lamps. The unpredictable movement of the wax inside these lamps provides a natural source of randomness. A camera captures the ever-changing patterns of the lava lamps, converting these visuals into a stream of random data which is used to seed cryptographic pseudo-random number generators (CSPRNGs). This randomness is crucial for creating secure encryption keys that are less susceptible to prediction or attack.

The Wall of Entropy not only serves a functional purpose but also engages the public, as it is displayed in the lobby of Cloudflare's office. The presence of people moving around the lamps adds an extra layer of randomness, as their shadows and movements subtly change the patterns recorded by the camera. This innovative approach combines old-school technology with cutting-edge security needs, ensuring that the encryption keys generated are highly unpredictable and secure.

Beyond the lava lamps, Cloudflare employs other creative methods for randomness generation in their different global offices. For instance, in London, they use a chaotic pendulum, and in Singapore, they measure the radioactive decay of uranium. These diverse methods contribute to Cloudflare's robust security infrastructure, which protects around 10% of global web traffic, including sites like Uber, OKCupid, and Fitbit. This blend of technology illustrates how Cloudflare pushes the boundaries of traditional cybersecurity practices with both creativity and functionality.

The streamers' contempt for attention spans is getting harder to ignore

https://www.avclub.com/streamers-netflix-attention-spans