Bitvora didn't spam my relays, didn't try to bribe devs, or steal money from new Nostr users. Nobody ever complained to me that they received their very first SATS on a Bitvora wallet and them were told that they can't use it for anything other than paying for a "self-custodial" wallet subscription. Bitvora didn’t drive new Nostr users (and often new to BTC as well) away thinking that the whole thing is a huge crypto scam.

I've seen you honour your commitments to your clients and invest countless hours and resources into building and hosting FOSS tech that has moved the state of Nostr forward, while humbly giving all credit upstream and dealing with all criticism that come your way fairly. So, for all that this eternal Nostr outsider opinion is worth, I salute you.

And I'm sure you will still be building great things long after all the current VC money and grants currently moving Nostr dry up.

About the source, aye, not much of a mystery. To be fair, they used an alt, likely to avoid screenshots leaking. But relatively easy to recognise. I'm not saying this to out anyone either, just sharing it publicly because I don't give a flying rat's arse anymore. Other than my own disappointment with some folks, no harm done.

About immigrants, agreed. But the obsession with a few bad apples and refugees on dinghies, while enthusiastically supporting the very system that is sending Western civilisation down the toilet, makes me sad. It goes beyond shallowness. It's just the same old agenda of weaponised hate to distract people from the mess that a bunch of entitled octogenarians and a few sociopathic billionaires are making so that they can leech for just a little longer.

Agreed. I’m all for people unionising and for businesses being punished for union busting. I’m also against people being forced into unionising or being extorted into paying membership fees without real representation. Funnily enough, this is a posture that tends to annoy authoritarians on both the left and the right, as it makes too much sense. Unions can be a good thing, and when they are a good thing, people don’t need to be forced into unionising. Ask Brazilian finance professionals or US SAG-AFTRA members if they want to give up their union membership.

Thanks for talking some sense and baiting some of the bad apples on Nostr to out themselves, nostr:nprofile1qqsw9n8heusyq0el9f99tveg7r0rhcu9tznatuekxt764m78ymqu36cpr3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnfw33k76twwpshy6ewvdhk6tcpzdmhxue69uhhwmm59e6hg7r09ehkuef0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtn4w3ux7tn0dejj7ne6u4e. Nostr content is getting so tiresome...

Fun fact: while you were taking a break, I got some heated DMs basically calling me a hypocrite for collaborating with you and Bitvora while calling this shit out on Nostr. Apparently, they took you for one of the racist / North American MAGA / authoritarian-dressed-as-libertarian sheep on Nostr. And Bitvora for one of the crappy, spammy Lightning service providers on Nostr (after I blocked a couple from spamming the relays I’m running and returned a few of their bribery attempts).

For the folks who need a reason for me to volunteer my time (why would anyone need a reason to maintain good software?), that’s why. Don’t take a good man, a builder, a second-generation Canadian, for one of the low-IQ, xenophobic racists loitering here.

Signed: a Brazilian-born, UK citizen who has contributed more to this country in the past ten years than all of the Tommy Robinson followers on Nostr combined. I never claimed any benefits, not even during unemployment (and yes, things got pretty rough for a while). I built two businesses from the ground up, volunteered quite a bit, and was subjected to the 60% UK tax trap for several years while paying extra fees like the NHS surcharge. Tax-wise, I am sustaining an average of at least half a dozen of Tommy Robinson’s “patriots” on the dole while they are busy coming to London to riot and paint roundabouts red. The only thing I have to say to the "patriots" out there is... Piss off! Stop complaining about the immigrants putting food on your table and get good. Real patriots should, you know, do something for their country other than seeding hate and trying to start riots.

You folks voted for Brexit. You folks did nothing while the corrupt politicians you voted for sold out. You folks let private equity take control of the country, including real estate. You are the ones about to elect Farage and swallow Musk’s fascist rhetoric of “violence is coming for you” while letting the US and Big Tech aristocracies weaken Europe and ruin our way of life. I have nothing to do with the UK’s decline. You do. Stop blaming immigrants for the consequences of your choices. Also, be careful what you wish for. Unlike you, I have real mobility (hint: moving abroad is nowhere near as easy as you think), so please take some responsibility and stop destroying the country that I love and that you are trapped in. Take some responsibility before it is too late.

PS: As a very white person (yes, there are lots of people of European descent in Brazil, mostly children and grandchildren of European immigrants fleeing their countries during difficult times, so do remember that tables turn), I can say that “Arabs”, “Asian”, and “Brown” people are doing very well, thank you. In fact, most British “patriots” I know would move to places like Dubai and Qatar without a second glance if they had the opportunity to.

Lol. I'm... Increasingly disappointed and less invested in Nostr. So, not a hostage, but lacking incentive (more than financial incentive, if I'm being totally honest Nostr culture and content is just not for me... I don't think I'll be on NIP-01 for much longer, although I'm still interested in Alexandria, GRASP and a few "other things").

Ah, fair. I haven't seen a more general "mirror button" in any other clients besides NoStrudel, only in Blossom-specific management utilities. One way or another, mirroring your own images or someone else's flows the same way in the backend. At the end of the day, it is a REST endpoint that the client calls, and both servers have to be mindful of what each other expects. One missing header on the origin server can be enough for the destination server to reject the media, so you are basically hostage to each dev interpretation of the specs or even of things beyond the specs. Thankfully, there is no such thing in IPFS, as it is basically torrent-style P2P stuff under the hood.

Primal did, but compatibility between Blossom servers is still a bit hit and miss as some fair play is required between clients and both servers involved.

I think I did play with a direct DHT Client as well as a cache-in-between the Blossom server and a local HTTP to IPFS Gateway with some aggressive catching headers (which gave me the best results as when the CDN evicts media, more often than not the bridge hits the cache instead of IPFS), but I'll revisit it for sure. And also play with your stuff, as if IPFS is enough Blossom becomes unnecessary.

Great stuff. I built a private Blossom to IPFS gateway (Khatru based, despite the fact that the framework author does not like IPFS). My main problem so far is that when my CDN evicts media, latency increases substantially, even when I am acting directly as an IPFS host and gateway. It also seems to be a bit more bandwidth hungry, which is not a big deal.

But aye, in terms of redistribution and redundancy it is ahead of Blossom, especially as most Blossom implementations out there take liberties with the specs and are not compatible with each other, nor even between clients. I totally gave up on BUD-04 mirroring, as client and Blossom server devs break compatibility faster than I can fix stuff on my side.

Hey, all of the remaining half a dozen real humans still using NIP-01, just passing by to wish you all Happy Holidays!

Yes, I’m being inclusive despite celebrating Christmas myself, so… leave a comment that likely won’t be delivered, and even if it does, won’t be replied to, so, in good Nostr fashion, you'll never know. See you next year... Maybe?

https://youtu.be/4uymCMVXgqs

Thank you, and welcome to Nostr (assuming that you are new)

The main problem is that a lot of Lightning, ecash, etc. wallets allow you to associate an nsec to unlock the wallet. Not many people pasting their nsecs into random vibecoded apps are security-conscious enough to use a separate Nostr key, so if one of those vibecoded apps leaks nsecs, you can pretty much scan the respective lud16 for half a dozen popular wallet domains and, more likely than not, hit the BTC jackpot.

Yes, this is the nostrconnect (client initiate) flow. Clicking and copying and pasting the nostrconnect token is ultimately the same thing. Neither work for me unfortunately (the flow where I first create a bunkerurl in Amber works)

Aye. Android background processing is a pain and nostr pool connection management is broken enough by itself. Restarting Androix didnt work but nostr:nprofile1qqs827g8dkd07zjvlhh60csytujgd3l9mz7x807xk3fewge7rwlukxgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qydhwumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejz7d9xcpk managed to release a test version that partially fixed things for bunkerurl flows (as long I don't use nostrconnect URLs and rawdog my nsec into Amethyst so that it doesn't hoard Amber resources things are working, or rather, back at acceptable levels of brokeness :()

4.0.4 works to login with Citrine + a Amber generated Bunker URL, I still haven't found a version that works for me for nostrconnect URL flows. But it used to for sure (can't say which version exactly as I haven't updated Amber for a while)

Also, on jumble I'm still getting: "mute: no one was listening to your ephemeral event and it wasn't handled in any way, it was ignored"

Ok, if I kill Amethyst, Jumble and Nosotros gets unstuck, so maybe Amethyst is hoarding all of Amber's capacity. Still can't log in with thr nostrconnect flow though.

So, with this version I can log in using Citrine and the bunker url flow, but still can't with the nostrconnect flow. Amber window now closes, but it seems like things get sorta stuck after that, I.e. clients keep struggling to load timelines, etc.

Nah, nsec is like the password for your Bitwarden or 1password, it is much more than just a password for an individual social media website. And if you have a lightining address it is like throwing your credit cards in the mix as well, you simply shouldn't use it on experimental clients (which is most of Nostr). Yes, reusing your Gmail password on vibecoded sites is bad, and this exactly why people shouldn't do it. The problem is the path not to do it in Nostr is broken.

TL;DR on deVine is that press and some big timer YouTube channels like Linus Tdch ztips got wind of it and a gazillion folks tried to join at once. Basically too many users / too heavy of a worjload for existing relay software and available relays. There was a room with the usual folks trying to provision relays for it (Gleason et all) but if you don't have the infrastructure for the normies to flock in all of the hype is wasted.

Yes, Amethyst is getting stuck over and over again, even when displaying events from my timeline.

Will do. Seems like I can load your message on Amethyst but can't DM back. And 0xChat is crashing on me, but I'll try it and reply back to you here.

You can’t post this and not share the "simple trick" 🤣. It’s against the Geeky Linux User Constitution.

Good afternoon Nostr.

Nobara’s logo is so “Nostrich”… We need to get those folks here!

https://nobaraproject.org/

#nobara #foss #linux #growNostr

Nice read. I would add bootstrapping to this list. Although we can maybe kinda have a backwards compatible path forward, the whole process of relying on DNS (NIP-05) and a list of aggregator relays to find someone's Outbox relays is beyond messy. I would love if we could start v2 with a more sensible bootstrapping mechanism.

Could you ELI5 "negative-filter-negentropy"?

And... let’s once again circulate the 1000 sats in our two-cynic-man circular economy ;). We just need to be careful not to do it too often, or we’ll end up featured in the top zapped lists and approached to promote crypto stuff as a Nostr Influencers 🤣

Basicamente não se fala de Java no Nostr. E é engraçado pois tem bastante Janeiro por aqui. É só que a galera é meio fraxa de hashtag, e as pontes trazem muito conteúdo do Mastodon (que pouca gente sabe bloquear). É difícil fazer brotar algo aqui. Talvez com uma dessas comunidades ao estilo Reddit

Private Equity is having a blast buying everyone out for peanuts. Where's the buses full of hooligans to "Unite the Kingdom" against PE?

The obvious question that a lot of folks should ask themselves behind all of these events with "political influencers" and buses coming from all over the place is:

- Who is paying for it?

- What is the message here? (I'll make it easy: it is "Dissolve the parliament and vote for a certain party that I'm funding")

- And why are they paying for it?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/elon-musk-tommy-robinson-london-protest-b2826032.html

Destabilisation agendas aren't exactly a new concept. Musk, the person, is a South African national that came to the US on a Visa. He is part of the "massive uncontrolled immigration" that made the US a super power. He is also very happy to sponsor work visas to keep his empire running for just a bit longer. So I don't buy the anti-immigration rhetoric even a bit. Neither do I buy his "love" for the UK, Germany or anywhere else.

The real question is: What else is he willing to do to keep his empire going for just a bit longer?

GM Zed. Have a great day.

I try not to hit people if I can avoid it... 🤣 But I did DM you (NIP-17).

GM Free World. I just want to take the time to say that Trump is great and he definitely doesn’t have a small peepee.

https://youtu.be/dsl_sKYywEI

https://youtube.com/shorts/f8oT52ewOsY

#gm #policits #southpark

Thanks sir. Things have definitely improved. For example, some of Haven’s relays reject this kind, but now I’m only seeing one error per relay instead of continuous write attempts like before. So I assume Amethyst is no longer retrying writes if some of the user’s relay rejects the list, correct?