Logo option..hmmm

I don’t want to ask for permission from anyone. I’d rather just publish an apk on my site and tell people to use obtainium or something, at least for now until im on the play store. I don’t see what advantages zapstore has for sovereign publishing over an apk and your own server, as it seems strictly worse because it is permissioned.

What happened to permissionless tech?

New friends regularly learn we have 6 kids and comment, "I don't know how you do it". I'll let my nostr friends in on a little secret. Kids don't have to be a burden. Our culture keeps people infantilised into their thirties now. This is my young daughter. Every day she walks across our property, fetches our goats, milks them, filters the milk, cleans up, and brings it home, rain or shine. You want to know the craziest part... She loves it and takes pride in it. Everyone in our household has responsibilities from a young age. If you ever read this, I'm proud of you , baby! Daddy always loves you.

Thank you so much Grace and Truth! I was feeling salty about somethings when I responded to you so I'm sorry and hope I didn't offend you. My wife and I really appreciate your participation!

Dumb question but is there a recommended central #hub for discovering and tracking your #nostr apps?

What are some must-have apps on a de-googled phone running GrapheneOS? How do you make the transition from convenient panopticon to personal privacy with a little elbow grease?

Would love suggestions on things I can cover in my tutorial. Tag anyone that might have suggestions!

The default keyboard sucks. You can just get GBoard again and disable network permissions if you wanna preserve some privacy.

I appreciate your well wishes. However, I'm not interested in being told what to do. I'm not your dog.

When I first moved from Canada to Portugal, 25 years ago, I tried to be a gentleman. On the narrow beach boardwalks, if I saw elderly women coming the other way, I would step aside and give them space.

Instead of gratitude, I heard them muttering in a tone that made it very clear they thought I was an idiot. After a few days, one of them finally stopped me and asked, “What are you doing?”

I said, “I’m stepping aside so you can pass.”

She shook her head. “No, no. This is a macho country. You are a man, you walk down the middle with your chest out and you take up space. Everyone else gets out of your way.”

The next day I saw her again. This time, I walked straight down the middle. She did the same. Narrow boardwalk. Barely room for two. I did not stop. We collided. She landed on her backside in the sand, looked up at me, grinned, and said, “That’s right. That’s what you should be doing.”

After that, she and her friends would always move aside when I came down the path. And they did it with approval.

It was a shock to me. I grew up with British etiquette drilled into me by my great-grandmother, hold the door, offer your arm, walk properly, speak properly. Portugal had a completely different rule set.

The real problem is not which rule set you live under. The problem is when there is no rule set at all. That is what we have now in North America, no clarity, no hierarchy, no reciprocity.

If we want respect again, we must enforce our own rules and stick to them. Reciprocity always re-creates order, even if the start feels rough.

I will likely need to watch that and more.

Thanks for the recommendation. I hate that I have to bother learning about this.

Some upcoming tutorials I'm working on... what should I prioritize and what am I missing?

- Graphene OS & alternative app stores

- ZAP Store

- Start9 refresh

- Parmanode

- Self hosted Fedimint setup (start9)

- Blockstream Wallet

- Ashigaru full stack (self hosted)

- SeedHammer 2 (when it ships)

- Coldcard Paper Wallets feature

- Bitcoinize Machine + Bolt Cards

- BTCpay advanced features and integrations

- Damus (when it hits android)

- Amethyst

Enough with the bitcoin chatter. Let's have some fun! Time to have another meme contest. Whoever makes the funniest meme within the next three hours will receive a 5k sat zap from yours truly! Only original memes count. #memestr #memes

8pm tonight will put me at a full 3 day fast. Wasn't too bad (we'll see if I hit a wall today). Nothing but water with a dash of fine grain baja sea salt added to it to maintain some minerals.

I've also been curving other things that release dopamine. Took a two-mile walk yesterday evening, felt a little more cognizant of reality. It's kind of weird. Probably going to push myself to only eat, say, 20 days out of the month, have a few two or three day fasts, maybe one 5 day, and only eat when I do in a two to four hour window.

Life is healthier when you learn to eat to live and not live to eat. Not to mention the inconvenience of having to deal with food all the time. Let your body heal.

Thank you! It's funny I don't think I've ever recorded the piano before this note... and I realized that I love it's character in the recording! I'll have to do some actual recording of it for something!

i’ll wait 😂

The repost transforms every user into a curator, creating distributed editorial power where relevance is determined by collective human intelligence rather than corporate algorithms.

When you repost, you stake your reputation on what deserves attention, making it both social proof and intellectual endorsement. In decentralized networks, ideas spread not because they game an algorithm, but because they resonate with real people.

We are indeed the algorithm, and our collective reposts weave the very fabric of what information survives, thrives, or dies in the digital commons.

I’ve been thinking that to reach new plebs I should focus on Linux and the Web…. But in all reality, Windows has like 70% market share. Should I not be sticking to the web but targeting Windows for desktop apps? That is where all the majority of future plebs will be hanging out.

#asknostr #buildnostr #grownostr

PrivacyPack helps you replace Big Tech step by step. What privacy-friendly service are we still missing?

Nope

Thank you. I did mean it literally. I don't always want to be right. It was my reaction, and at least partially an assumption. I'm at a difficult point in my relationship with Christians. I'm being forced to choose between Christ and Christians. The correct path is to be forgiving and keep trying with them. But I'm human and I'm tired...

gpt5s hottest take is that human life shouldn't be a priority. lmao

Alright, my nostr is cluttered and the signal is getting lost. I either have to do some pruning, or make a new npub just for following certain people. Which to choose, which to.... Both.

What's the best wallet to use with Primal?

The built-in wallet doesn't work for me (activation email never arrives) and I can receive zaps with my Speed wallet, but AFAIK it doesn't have NWC for sending zaps.

Some may have noticed that I change my Nostr profile to my real name and face.

When I first signed up, I didn't know what to call myself so I just copied my old username and profile picture from Twitter. But after meeting Bitcoiners in real life, I decided I want to enter this space as myself.

I have a long-held fear of being seen and couldn't write from the heart without hiding behind an avatar. And to some degree, this made sense in a space where I am being censored and monitored.

I also know that what's important to me are people and community. The downstream consequences of life moving more and more online are so evident in society today and it's making us disconnected and isolated. That is not what social media should be for. I want to connect on a human level, even in my online interactions.

I thought I was just joining another social media platform. But instead I find myself being challenged to grow again. And I'm here for it 🦋

Not Orwellian at all 😅

35 years later Eastern Europe is freer than Western Europe

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I'm no TA/charts guy, but 80,000 bitcoin were sold, and this is the result? Bullish.

It's not too terrible for me because my financial advisor is Fidelity and they can't really complain that my entire 401K is in FBTC 😅