Nostr Web Client

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HoloKat

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-the-transistor.html

Josua Schmid 1d ago

Ha, there‘s a typo: ploynomial

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HoloKat

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-the-transistor.html

Josua Schmid 1d ago

Nice article! Schmidhuber has interesting things to say.

Josua Schmid 1d ago 💬 1

Watching „The Expanse“ again. Missing the 2000s, the age of The Matrix, Aquanox, Gothic, when then internet extended my teenager arms.

Josua Schmid 1d ago

To the #beerchain,

standesgemäss: Rodenbach!

Happy New Year!

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Rizful.com (zap tester)

hi -- we were trying to zap you -- but it looks like you haven’t set up a NIP-05 or ⚡ lightning address yet — grab one free at https://rizful.com .. then pls reply here and we will try zapping you...

Josua Schmid 1w ago

fake news

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Muslim Bitcoiner

This is an interesting feature that I think nostr apps should incorporate. I view nostr as a tribe building engine.

In legacy social media, users are algorithmically inventivized to follow and prop up influencers, and everyone is in a rage baiting rat race to get more engagement for potential revenue from social media overlords like Elon. The result is slop, predictably.

I think things are arranged differently here on nostr where people naturally gravitate toward a group of like minded people. I mean this happens on legacy SM, but the algorithm isn't geared toward that type of community building. I have a feeling that "influencers" don't really thrive here, and we should be building around that and cultivating an toxic environment that rejects legacy influencer behavior.

Growth on nostr should be about which tribes you're affiliated with, and your reputation with them, rather than how many mindless followers you've got. nostr:note1g4ve6rs3mdqzwq6w2ehzm84m4rqruu4watc3gx775yw3gezvcmfsl4a0yw

Josua Schmid 1w ago 💬 1

I‘m not sure if tribe is the segregation I want. It should be more about my current mode-of-mind:

Sometimes I brew beer, sometimes I want to discuss about Bitcoin, sometimes about nostr, sometimes about programming, sometimes about politics, sometimes I like to scroll, sometimes I like to know what people in geographic proximity are doing…

But always I want to know what person X is up to, what X thinks about a matter, and explicitly because this person is not in my usual tribe cluster. I like how facebook did it in the early days. It was about people, not content.

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Josua Schmid

My song would be called „Polyester Oil Sweat“

Josua Schmid 1w ago

If it was a Youtube video: „How to make scratchy clothing with smooth crude oil“

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Josua Schmid

My song would be called „Polyester Oil Sweat“

Josua Schmid 1w ago

It‘s a metal song, scratchy, itchy

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Laeserin 🇻🇦

Just wear wool all year.

Always perfect temperature, always looks good, and you'll hardly have to wash clothes.

Josua Schmid 1w ago 💬 2

My song would be called „Polyester Oil Sweat“

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Scott •••

Got to hang out with a family friend this evening. She was born in 1929.

She still works at the hospital.

Still drives.

Still goes bowling with other seniors once a week.

Still goes to concerts.

Lives by herself in a beautiful house which she takes care of extremely well.

She has lived through the Great Depression, several wars, covid, and has outlived two husbands.

She’s truly got a perspective on life that almost no one has these days.

Plus she’s funny as hell.

#plebchain

Josua Schmid 1w ago 💬 1

Record a conversation with her if she allowes it.

I recorded my wife‘s grandma and let her tell about her life in Vienna during WW2. Planning to give the recordings to my kids when they‘re older.

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Gzuuus

GM🌞

Josua Schmid 2w ago 💬 1

Gm!

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alp

When one AI starts laughing at another... these are some weird times.

Josua Schmid 2w ago

When they start paying each other

Josua Schmid 3w ago

#fire

Josua Schmid 3w ago 💬 3

Good morning misty lake Obersee, gm #Jona

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Vitor Pamplona

One needs a name

Josua Schmid 1mo ago

“Robosexuals”?

[Futurama]

Josua Schmid 1mo ago

Quick simplistic thought:

Fatherland sends you to war,

Motherland imprisons you

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Kortik 🇦🇲

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Writing code is not a crime!

https://www.pod256.org/episodepage/096-from-open-source-to-federal-sentence-the-government-vs-samourai-wallet

Josua Schmid 1mo ago

Soley for the rhyme:

Except it’s a prime,

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Henky!!

Tech is getting increasingly depressing for me.

Windows is being AI slopped to shir.

Linux intentionally infects everything with ideology and incompatibilities.

Android wants to become more like iPhone.

Apple is consistent in being a tyrant that wants to dictate what you can do.

Governments are removing our digital liberties at record pace.

I used to be excited about tech, but this year its very little excitement and a lot of seeing my passion go to shit.

I need some hype in my life again. Maybe the steam frame will not get ruined and cheer me up a bit. At least the open source AI space keeps giving some fun toys to play with.

Josua Schmid 1mo ago 💬 1

And all the abos… not owning files nor config, all in the abo clouds.

Is there a thing like “license dependency churn”? A legal downstream mayhem? A case where I could loose my Spotify playlist because a Spotify supplier licence increases in price because their supplier changed pricing because their supplier was sold to a supplier which has higher software license costs… or so

Josua Schmid 1mo ago 💬 3

Gm #Jona

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what is heat?

Good question. Precision lacking. I guess anything which is high energy but not photons? Stuff I can use to heat water without contaminating it?

Josua Schmid 5mo ago 💬 1

Can I get a nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 feed without any reposts?

Josua Schmid 5mo ago

Birra Moretti, the Italian beer answer of Heineken in Switzerland

Cheers to the #beerchain!

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fiatjaf

This is the best idea since Blossom.

If I understand it correctly the plan is to create a cloud of servers that host Git repositories and that each programmer can be affiliated to (just like you can do with Blossom servers) and they will host all your Git repositories (such that if one of them is down the repositories can always be found on the others) and everything is automatically addressed and authorized using Nostr keys, repositories are discovered using Nostr events and the magic can work easily.

I've been trying to self-host my repositories at https://git.fiatjaf.com/ for a while now, and keeping the server running and safe from the aggressive AI crawlers has been a challenge. My intent was to make a nice self-hosted server with a NIP-34 integration so people could send patches (the biggest hurdle these days when using anything to host your code except for GitHub is that it's too hard for external people to contribute), but that integration was never finished and I couldn't even focus in getting the "self-hosted git" part good enough. The truth is that, even with the best self-hostable software ever, still most programmers wouldn't run it.

I had hoped that someone was going to make a service that hosted repositories on behalf of others, and that NIP-34 integration would make that automatically interoperable and easy for external contributors, thus removing the network-effect that GitHub has and enabling competition between multiple providers. nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p had hinted at building something like this at some point.

That could have worked, but at least problems would have remained: even if repositories were addressable via Nostr, the URLs of the git repositories would have remained too important and fragile, and so people would have still become more-or-less dependent on these services and on DNS; that and it would still be a hard thing to send any contributions to repositories that didn't fit in a "patch" Nostr event.

The natural solution for the big patch problem is to have your changes pushed to your own Git server as a branch, than propose that as a change to the base repository, asking the owner to pull them from your server and merge them upstream. We can call that a "merge request" or "pull request" if you prefer. But before this new revolutionary idea from nostr:npub15qydau2hjma6ngxkl2cyar74wzyjshvl65za5k5rl69264ar2exs5cyejr that flow would be arcane and hard, but if we have a new Blossom-like protocol that makes it easy and straightforward to setup new Git repositories and push branches, all automated, pre-authorized and authenticated with Nostr events, the problem becomes as easy as uploading an image.

At the same time I don't have to worry anymore about making a nice self-hostable Git server with code browsing HTML UIs and all that stuff: now Git servers can be basically headless and the job of browsing code and patches and whatnot can be entirely delegated to NIP-34 clients.

We can kill Radicle now.

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpgqgmmc409hm4xsdd74sf68a2uyf9pwel4g9mfdg8l5244t6x4jdqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyqexggdxl54twyllvd6vvtc3fax6w59vzjuy46gruyvz424tcalhu05mw99

Josua Schmid 5mo ago 💬 1

Let me digest the Github aspect here:

Github works so well because of the centralist social aspects. Code gets reputation with stars, open issues/prs, code age. It‘s ratings, conversations and applying patches which became much easier with „pull requests“ than with mailing lists and patch files.

The role nostr should play in this analogy is that it should make all the Github-goodness uncensorable, right?

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