You are fantastic, thanks a million for your kind words.

(The following text is written in #Bengali language about account creation and use of #Nostr)

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বাংলায়  নস্ত্র, সোস্যাল মিডিয়ার এ এক দারুণ অস্ত্র!

আপনার শুধু একটি একাউন্ট তৈরী করলেই হবে, সেটা যেখানেই হোক। ঐ একটি একাউন্টের সঙ্গে মনে রাখবেন তিনটে ব্যাপার:

১) আপনার আইডি আর তার সঙ্গে সমন্বিত NIP05 একসটেনশন, ধরুণ আমার নাম arinbasu@iris.to, আমি iris.to সাইটে গিয়ে আমার আইডি তৈরী করেছি। আপনি অন্য কোথাও করতে পারেন, তিনটে জায়গা (প্রচুর আছে):

* iris.to

* coracle.social

* astral.ninja

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/setup-nostr-account/

এই ওয়েবসাইটটায় ভাল করে একাউন্ট তৈরী বোঝানো হয়েছে, তবে ব্যাপারটা খুব সহজ |

একাউন্ট তৈরীর পর আপনার একটা public key আর একটা private key পাবেন। প্রাইভেট চাবিটিকে পাসওয়ার্ডের মত করে ব্যবহার করবেন, পারতপক্ষে পারলে কপি পেস্ট করবেন না, সেই জন্য এ্যাপ ব্যবহার করলে ভাল হয়। আপনি ব্রাউজারের অ্যাপ, আর ফোনের অ্যাপ, ট্যাবের অ্যাপ ডাউনলোড করে ব্যবহার করতে পারেন।

তবে যে কারণে নস্ত্র আর সবাইকে টেক্কা দিতে পারে, সেইটে একে ব্যবহার করা নিয়ে। এই যে একবার একটা আইডি তৈরী করলেন, এতেই আপনি গোটা নস্ত্রকে ধরতে পারবেন, যে যেখানে যা লিখছেন সব একজায়গায় দেখতে পাবেন, যেখানে খুশী লিখতে পারবেন, সব কিছু সব কিছুর সঙ্গে যুক্ত, এবং সবকিছু আপনার নিয়ন্ত্রণে, মানে আপনি যে ডিভাইসে দেখছেন, সেখানে রাখা থাকে। যার জন্য একটু খেয়াল রাখবেন পাবলিক ডিভাইসে নস্ত্র ব্যবহার না করাই ভাল।

আপনি নস্ত্র ব্যবহার করবেন "ক্লায়েন্টে" (বাংলায় অ্যাপ, ;-) )। ব্রাউজারের ক্লায়েন্ট, আর ফোন/ট্যাবলেটের ক্লায়েন্ট |

ক্লায়েন্ট --> আপনার লেখা/ছবি/ভিডিও --> পাঠাবে Relay তে --> আপনার বন্ধু Relay থেকে তাঁর ক্লায়েন্টে টেনে নেবেন আপনার পাঠানো ছবি/লেখা/কথা | ক্লায়েন্ট আর Relay র খেলা, যার জন্য গোটা ব্যাপারটা এত সহজ আর সোজাসাপটা। আপনি ঠিক করবেন আপনি কি দেখবেন, কোথায় দেখবেন, কিভাবে দেখবেন।

It's only a few days, and I started getting annoyed with my online webmail asking me for username and password, and I am like why can't they learn it from #Nostr , and somehow this arrangement of nsec1 and npub1 feels to me that this thing is better than 2FA ;-)

#Nostr in the classroom

Teaching for example, is basically a social phenomenon. Teachers/Professors and their students are part of a social network which best thrives when this social network is such that everyone participates in a secure, interesting ways. Imagine a social network that has all the elements of like/favourite, share (locally and with the world uncontrolled by anyone), within the context of a classroom but also works equally well outside of the classroom.

As a student, you are part of a social network where you receive information from your professor and your fellow students, but at the same time, you can _either_ communicate ONLY with your fellow students OR with your professor and the fellow students, or with the professor alone, or whatever, only you control and tweak the conditions of what information you want. At the same time, you want this network to be able to connect you to the rest of the world.

This is possible with #Nostr. Imagine a class of four students where the professor (or the IT people at the University) set up a server for the class that serves as a private "relay" for the class. Students can pull from that relay and the professor pushes into that, and then depending on the context, students can either "push" into that relay or create a separate relay where they can talk with only themselves.

These can open up unprecedented teaching opportunities in a classroom or university.

:-)

On #Fediverse, I have an address `arinbasu1@social.arinbasu.online`. I can jump into my #Pleroma instance and share whatever I want to share. Can I use `arinbasu1..` when I jump into a #Calckey server or a #Mastodon server? I cannot. I have to tie my identity to a server and then using _only_ that server I can communicate with the rest of the Fediverse. Which is fine but also creates a bloat. I can sheet anchor myself in my own instance at `social.arinbasu.online` and can read/write but to meet new people, and new conversations, I will still need to visit other instances. I wish there was an easier way to do things than that. This is also an aspect that many people, who come to fediverse from a walled garden such as twitter, rue, as they find it hard to negotiate with the medium first and then they will have to `create identities` everywhere first to read/write content. So, in this sense #Fediverse is like email, that with one identity you can read/write content and share with people.

Yet, you need to create separate identity in `each server` you have your account. It is not like you can push/pull to/from everything everywhere. #Nostr has upended this limitation, it seems. Here, I _start_ with an id, which, in my case, is, arinbasu@iris.to, but then with this id, I also get a public id ,

npub17vs8nsgxt2r3saj6w4089z05xvvkahj7urqs7jkdz9329s4cj5qquwmr5w

and a private id.

That private id acts like my login everywhere or all other apps I visit, and that's it. So I can visit any `service` such as damus, or iris, or coracle, login with my associated private id, and I am in. Then everything depends on how I tweak my relay list, as the more relays I will subscribe to, the more I will receive in my Global feed, and the more likely my `voice` will reach wider. I can even store my ideas to my own created relay and read/write when I want if I want.

In theory I will never need another identity with another app unless I need a special user case (even then). The magic is how I decide to tweak my relay list and do what I want to do.

Beat that!

I believe #Nostr gives the _user_ so much power to choose from what that person wants to read or share, that is the "winning" aspect. Fediverse and everything else will stay, but this thing is a game changer.

Precisely. #Nostr has stripped everything extraneous. It does not matter if I am on iris or damus or whatever. I can move and keep whatever client I want, but it's the mix of relays that matter. This has also made me rethink my relationship with "social" aspect of social media. Does a "fixed" set of followers and following make sense anymore if I can fine tune my feed?

Thanks #[2]​ , getting the hang of it, :-) slowly.

Learning about #Nostr

* [This intro](https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzd3cxy6rjv3hx5cnyde5qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpramhxue69uhkummnw3ez6un9d3shjtnwda4k7arpwfhjucm0d5hsz8nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wgh8w6tjv4jxuet59e48qtczypl4c26wfzswnlk2vwjxky7dhqjgnaqzqwvdvz3qwz5k3j4grrt46qcyqqq823chvhp0j ) is an absolute gem

* [Github repo](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr)

* [Awesome Nostr](https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr)

* [Fascinating ](https://usenostr.org/)

* Snort.social does not work on #Firefox on Mac Big Sur, otherwise fine

* [Set up relays](https://usenostr.org/relay.html)

#TIL

* Relays do not talk to each other!

* Connect to as many relays as possible

This is fun stuff!

😀

Yes, but the teachers will need to find creative ways to use #ChatGPT in the classroom, so a form of quiz or assessment might be to ask students to generate an essay with ChatGPT and then let them examine the claim of the facts generated by ChatGPT and _reflect_ on them, as to what do these things even mean? What are the implications? In other words, students should be able to go deeper than facts as presented.

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nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft

Would love to access your podcast, what is it about?

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@npub1teawtzxh6y02cnp9jphxm2q8u6xxfx85nguwg6ftuksgjctvavvqnsgq5u Verifying My Public Key: "arinbasu"

https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-fediverse-nostr-bridge/

nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6

has written this useful bridge to connect #Nostr with #Fediverse.

Great tool, thanks Alex!

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/cyclone-mocha-fishermen-advised-not-to-venture-into-bay-of-bengal-from-today-as-cyclonic-storm-brews/ar-AA1aQtMZ

Cyclone Mocha (namedafter the Yemeni city of Moka) is about to have landfall in #India, #ClimateChange and #Warming will likely make it worse.

This is the ANZAC day celebrations, unique to Australia and New Zealand to celebrate their participation in First WW

How do I post to the global timeline? I have zero followers,LOL

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/when-thinking-or-talking-promotes

Eric Topol writes in this substack essay the intriguing research where brain tumours were found to interfere with speech and "thought" areas of the brain, leading to rapid loss of cognitive processing power. These researches point towards on the one hand, the need for deeper, causal level understanding as to what happens when someone has neural cancer, on the other hand, can lead to diagnostic and prognostic tools. A space to watch.

#NeuroCancer

ANZAC day celebration at #Sheffield, #Canterbury, #NewZealand