rabble

https://rabble.nz/

Building holis.social and nos.social.

Public Key

npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240

NIP-05 Address

rabble@nos.social

NIP-57 Address

rabble@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs8d3c64cayj8canmky0jap0c3fekjpzwsthdhx4cthd4my8c5u47spr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsyhva3l

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nostr-pub.wellorder.net

relay.damus.io

relay.mostr.pub

Author Public Key

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2025-05-30 00:48:10

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Yeah it’s not good, but our job here is to build a better alternative. ;-D

2025-05-26 12:48:35

@npub147k…cpce says she’d welcome Trump on Bluesky.
#note1mgp…dq2p

2025-05-24 15:21:04

Oslo Freedom Forum #OFF
https://image.nostr.build/039f6de1116119c8b9d0de58195d8f7d3c59ccb6f5a01ee73e493134a2234ee4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9f3c7d444d1e75d89dd0399c00fd8e03a31a5d8a9959a599d2f1f1e1aef051b7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9ea27b79173a2a3689d418f03aa476088370b6ab98ce679c3c058eede79f88bf.jpg

2025-05-20 11:30:24

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2025-05-16 14:13:01

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It’s not hard for clients to detect it’s an nevent string. If it’s nostr:nevent the OS will try and open a different nostr app sometimes which is a bad experience

2025-05-15 06:51:42

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@npub1vm7…sm7s oh I’m sure everyone speaks English. And frankly Germans aren’t so picky about people speaking their language as French are. I just find it funny people are ignoring my apology for not understanding German. Everyone is very nice.

2025-05-15 05:10:43

Whenever I visit Germany or the Nordic countries i’m always surprised at that the way everybody just assumes i speak the language. It’s kind of nice, but a little weird too. My mom’s family immigrated to the US in the 1880’s but only switched to speaking English at home because of WWII. For obvious reasons of not being down with the politics of Germany at the time. After the war, they didn’t go back to speaking German, except for songs and keeping cultural traditions.
It’s really interesting to be in a place where your ancestors come from. A few years ago I went to the tiny village of Plath, a couple hours north of Berlin. As far as we know that’s where my family came from. It’s a very small place, a couple hundred houses, a church, a bunch of farms, and no shops or restaurants of any kind. Honestly it didn’t look like any buildings had been built in the last 150 years.
Now when I’m in Germany, like I find myself today, I just feel kind of weird and incompetent when i have to explain that i don’t speak german to everybody I interact with. A few times today, getting through the airport in Munich, they’ve just ignored my protestations that I don’t speak German and went ahead trying to tell me something in German anyway. Maybe they think i’m acting the way German’s claim they don’t speak good english but then proceed to be entirely fluent. Germany isn’t very helpful a language to speak in New Zealand, I’m going to try Te Reo first, but maybe someday i’ll spend more time with focus in a german speaking country and try and learn.

2025-05-14 00:03:19

I have no inside knowledge and am just learning about the square handleheld product right now, but if I were to try and build a competitive alternative to iOS / Android for mobile devices this feels like the right way to do it. Bottom up, with a speciality product which has value for business customers. Eventually you grow to a more consumer market slowly without needing to boil the ocean.
My guess is that it’s some fork of Android with a customized OS and mini-AppStore for apps from Block. In order to compete against Google you’d need services and apps everyone wants, which is a hell of a moat. The solution that Chinese companies have for that is their consumers want different apps because western apps don’t work in china. I don’t know how you’d do it in the west. Maybe play off Europeans desire to not be dependent on American tech, maybe support Android / flutter / KMM apps? Maybe new agents will unseat the entire legacy SaaS products will dry up the Google/Apple moat.
We know how much the duopoly in mobile is a fundamental threat to free speech and an open internet. Doing something about it is a lot harder. Big efforts have failed so many times, an incremental strategy might just work.
https://squareup.com/us/en/hardware/handheld

2025-05-12 08:38:13

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I’ve got calendar stuff in my new chusme.social app that I’m working on. Definitely still in the buggy prototype stage. It’s a group focused nostr app.

2025-05-11 23:50:38

There’s a Bluesky related project to make a foursquare competitor using their data. We could totally do this faster with nostr.
https://atprotocol.dev/location-data-on-at-protocol-the-second-community-fund-project/?ref=free-our-feeds.ghost.io

2025-05-03 02:56:48

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What about this note would keep it private?
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2025-05-02 21:07:33

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It’s so damned slow and buggy. :(

2025-05-02 20:59:32

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It’d be interesting to see a visualization on other political views diagram which isn’t just a left / right spectrum.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum

2025-04-29 01:09:03

Did Trump ask Canadians to write in his name when they vote today?!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114415618596069518

2025-04-23 00:50:42

Bluesky’s added user verification in a way that’s not entirely bad. Different entities can become verifiers. So if you run a company you can verify your own employees. Bluesky PBC also will run a verifier. I think this isn’t a terrible solution to preventing impersonation.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification

2025-04-20 19:30:03

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Yes he’s never been very interested in being factual.

2025-04-20 19:26:24

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In general they do answer differently depending on your tone.

2025-04-18 06:12:53

“The original power of the internet wasn’t just about cool technology — it was about radical power redistribution. The web wasn’t exciting because it had hyperlinks; it was exciting because suddenly anyone could publish without asking permission”
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/the-de-in-decentralization-stands-for-democracy/

2025-04-18 05:12:49

I’m not sure how many people follow TechDirt.com but they’re a long standing low budget tech publication which has been very influential in the movement for an open web and protocols over platforms.
Their editor’s essay, Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech, laid out the arguments for what become both Nostr and ATprotocol.
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
Anyway, i just like to remember the folks who got us here. They accept bitcoin donations: https://www.techdirt.com/support/

2025-04-17 22:51:53

This is a great manifesto!
#note1fx0…lk0k

2025-04-17 21:35:39

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connect.nos.social

2025-04-17 21:35:13

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connect.nos.social works

2025-04-17 20:42:45

Police are creating AI bots to participate in protest movements in order to entrap activists.
The idea of infiltrating activist groups. At least this AI won’t end up going so deep under cover to the point where they have kids with the activists they’re targeting! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/14/police-spy-bragged-about-fathering-a-child-with-activist-inquiry-hears
#note1dpk…c2tx

2025-04-17 20:39:51

@npub17nd…950x I’m moving up the hill so you’ll be getting new angles on the same pier.
https://i.nostr.build/i5AvGOJ0txVyItLc.jpg

2025-04-17 01:41:15

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I didn’t mean it to be an insult or anything. It’s kind of endearing that the engineers doing the work are presenting it. But nobody makes eye contact with each other or the camera much.
As to be expected, it gets much better once they get in to their special interest, which is of course the LLM’s they’ve built.

2025-04-17 00:58:53

Watching the OpenAI livestream launch of o3/o4-mini it’s like a case study in 4 autistic guys nervously trying to present something.
https://openai.com/live/

2025-04-17 00:02:49

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So yes and no. They removed the domain name user names at bsky.social so while the users have their keys and could migrate to a different PDS, I don’t think they’re able to publish on bluesky hardware. I’m also not sure if bluesky the company has blocked content from those DID’s (users) on the relays and appviews. If they didn’t block, they probably don’t want to be public about it because Turkey would just come back and demand that they do it.

2025-04-16 23:58:29

Samsung has released a vacuum cleaner with built in screen that lets you do texting and phone calls while vacuuming! This is worse than the LED screens on fridges. Who on earth needs to make phone calls WHILE vacuuming!? Don’t you already have your phone in your pocket, and you know, vacuums make a lot of noise, so you’d want to STOP vacuuming in order talk on the phone.
https://www.theverge.com/news/639078/samsung-bespoke-ai-jet-ultra-vacuum-text-messages

2025-04-16 18:47:02

OpenAI is considering launching a social media app / platform. This feels like something we should pay attention to, but also where Nostr could compete using open models and our protocol.
https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor

2025-04-16 17:38:03

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Only https://deer.social seems to let you opt out of the company moderation so far.

2025-04-16 11:44:41

When you build a system that allows central control and censorship then the state will use those affordances if they feel the need. Bluesky’s blocked some Turkish accounts by order of the Turkish government.
https://i.nostr.build/xhKQNAYikxHeNUPk.jpg
The user DID keys are still active but their associated domain name / user names are not and the identities at blocked by bluesky’s moderation system that Turkish users can’t opt out of.
https://bsky.app/profile/nekorug.moe/post/3lmwgtwfggs2e
To escape this censorship you need to both use a Bluesky client that doesn’t opt in to the company’s obligatory moderation and also some relay and appviews which refuse to comply with Turkish censorship orders.

2025-04-16 09:49:32

Interesting someone finally made an ATprotocol client that doesn’t include the required base moderation provided by Bluesky inc.
https://deer.social

2025-04-16 01:53:12

Keep up to date with what's happening on Nostr with the Nostr Recap!
#nevent1q…4rvl

2025-04-16 01:51:06

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Representative democracies and the state have a lot of problems. Not ideal, not the system i'd like to live in. But they're better than an authoritarian state which uses it's monopoly of violence to silence all dissent and randomly deport dissidents to foreign forced labor camps.

2025-04-16 01:15:20

## A Plan for Defending Democracy: Building a Strategic, Cross-Party Coalition
We urgently need a concrete plan—a grand coalition—to defend democracy. If we truly mean #NeverAgain, the moment to act decisively is now. Democracy, basic freedoms, and human dignity itself are under threat.
Trump’s administration openly defies the Supreme Court, imposes extreme tariffs (up to 143% on China!), and now even threatens prison camps for political dissenters. To me, this isn’t just politics—it’s a terrifying erosion of civil liberties, constitutional norms, and the rights we once assumed were untouchable.
But outrage alone isn’t enough. We need a practical, targeted strategy that can truly stop this authoritarian slide.
### My Proposal: A Cross-Party Centrist Coalition in the U.S. House
Given how narrowly divided the House of Representatives currently is, I believe a small number of moderate Republicans from agriculture-heavy, purple or swing districts—especially in states with "top-two" primary systems like California and Washington—could join with centrist Democrats to flip the balance of power.
The goal isn’t a traditional partisan victory. Instead, it’s to create a powerful legislative firewall that can:
- Uphold and enforce Supreme Court rulings against an administration inclined to ignore them.
- End economically catastrophic tariffs that devastate American farmers and workers.
- Block authoritarian measures, like prison camps for political dissidents.
### How This Coalition Could Work Practically:
1. **Moderate Republicans take a stand**:
They commit publicly to oppose unconstitutional actions, reject extreme tariffs, and protect civil liberties, even if it means breaking from party leadership.
2. **Strategic Electoral Guarantees**:
- Democrats, especially in California and Washington’s top-two primary districts, would strategically "stand down," pledging not to run strong Democratic challengers against these Republicans.
- Progressive activists would temporarily focus their resources elsewhere, understanding that preserving democracy must come first.
- Centrist Democratic donors and influential grassroots groups would promise robust funding, political defense, and organizational support for these moderate Republicans, ensuring their survival against inevitable MAGA-backed primary challengers.
3. **Electing a Coalition-Friendly Speaker**:
The coalition could elect a moderate, compromise Speaker—someone from either party who firmly commits to:
- Protecting constitutional norms and enforcing judicial rulings.
- Ending catastrophic trade wars and protecting U.S. agriculture.
- Stopping authoritarian actions, including any plans for political imprisonment of dissenters.
4. **Allowing Independence for Progressives**:
This arrangement does not silence progressive voices or policies. Progressives would still freely critique and push for their agenda. But, crucially, on foundational issues—civil rights, human dignity, rule of law, economic sanity—the entire coalition would stand united.
### Why Would Moderate Republicans Take This Risk?
The threat from Trump and the MAGA wing will be fierce. Moderate Republicans will face harsh political backlash. That’s exactly why the coalition must pledge, explicitly and publicly, powerful electoral support and funding. These Republicans must know they’ll not stand alone. A true coalition demands solidarity and strong defense for its courageous members.
### Why This Unconventional Coalition Matters Right Now:
This strategy is not politics-as-usual. It’s bold and challenging. But with democracy itself on the line, ideological purity tests must be set aside. Coalition-building is the most pragmatic choice in extraordinary times.
I urge all who value democracy—progressives, centrists, moderates, libertarians, independents—to come together. Protect our courts, preserve the rule of law, safeguard livelihoods, and stand firm against authoritarianism. The stakes are too high to let partisan differences keep us divided.
### If #NeverAgain Means Anything, We Must Act Boldly:
Let’s move beyond partisan comfort zones. Let’s support principled Republicans who bravely oppose authoritarianism. By uniting now, creatively and courageously, we can prevent tyranny before it fully takes hold.
This coalition is how we protect each other. This is how we ensure freedom survives.
The moment is here—let’s act.

2025-04-14 23:01:30

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Yes we are but it’s a new app we’re building. We aren’t ready to release or announce it but the code is open source.
https://github.com/orgs/verse-pbc/repositories
What are communikeys?

2025-04-14 22:59:06

https://i.nostr.build/vygzTPOqPnd4EPF6.jpg

2025-04-12 20:56:20

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If someone could make some nostr apps that used semantic web syntax and it’d get added to the spec. The thing is almost all nips are optional so having it in the spec doesn’t mean apps or relays will use it. But if it’s useful to some people then do it!

2025-04-11 09:14:27

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There’s a STRONG desire for groups and MLS based groups in the bluesky ecosystem. It basically isn’t possible on atprotocol but it is possible using the bluesky identity system and other protocols. I believe this could be a backdoor to get bluesky users on to Nostr.

2025-04-11 05:34:25

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You don’t need to host it’s content on your relays or use it… but if you want to know more about how it works: https://www.nos.social/tagr-bot

2025-04-10 05:29:17

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My friends make this keyboard: keyboard.io
It is a work of art!
https://shop.keyboard.io/cdn/shop/files/B02-A7_00123_fullres_3fa76b7f-af13-44a4-869c-e2a1c92175fd.jpg?v=1713981178&width=600
Unfortunately they tried to make them in the US and found it wasn’t possible. Now they’re basically going to lose out on the US market.
https://shop.keyboard.io/blogs/news/an-open-letter-to-u-s-customers

2025-04-10 03:35:02

Did you know you can buy a keyboard made in the US? It looks really nice. The thing is to build a keyboard in the US means it costs $3600!
https://www.norbauer.co/pages/the-seneca

2025-04-10 03:29:14

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I mean the apple devices will be real, but yeah, it’s grey market.

2025-04-10 01:55:52

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Will Keychat use the mls stuff in nip-ee / nip-104 that @npub1zuu…c2uc is working on? Is it possible?

2025-04-10 01:54:23

For years when I lived in Uruguay we’d buy laptops and phones overseas and bring them back for ourselves but also everyone we knew. Uruguay like most countries in Latin America have very high tariffs on electronics. It’s a stupid tax which hurts the local economy a lot. There is no world in which it makes sense to manufacture high tech electronics in a tiny country of 3 million people whose economy is based on banking, tourism, and agriculture. Nor does it really make sense on Mercosur (South American trade block) level.
So it was cheaper to buy a round trip ticket to Miami and buy your iPhone than to buy it locally. There are restrictions on how many devices you can bring in, and to be safe unboxed everything to show i wasn’t bringing in products for resale. But basically every time someone from Uruguay travels outside of South America they’ve got a list of things to buy and bring back for friends and family.
There were attempts and making peer to peer market places for the informal tech mule economy but those got shutdown for obvious reasons.
Now I live in New Zealand which is a country which strongly believes in free trade and I’m able to buy whatever I want locally or directly from overseas. I’ve got to pay the VAT (GST style sales tax) but other than that it doesn’t matter where I buy it. It’s great.
The US is choosing to move towards the system that has failed to serve Latin American countries for decades. Ironically enough given Trump and republicans are pushing it but these trade barriers are really popular with a lot of Marxist economists. 😆
The thing is we know what will happen. The price of an iPhone in Canada and Mexico will be 40% cheaper than in the US. Same thing with laptops and everything else made in China. This will cause a booming retail business along the border. Initially out of reclaimed shopping centers, temporary pop up stores, etc… but there will be so much money in it that you’ll see it get established fast. It doesn’t require much to do a pop up electronics store.
Then Americans discovering they can get their name brand consumer and electronics goods across the border will start rushing to get goods at the old pre-Trump prices. Fly to San Diego, take the light rail train to the border, go shopping, come home. At first it’ll be folks buying for personal consumption and friends. But we know if a tax on consumer goods is over 10% then there becomes an economic incentive to evade it. All of a sudden instead of having a problem smuggling drugs and people in to the US you induce economic demand for mass smuggling! Gangs control smuggling partially because it’s illegal and you need extra legal use of violence to regulate the market, but partially because you can control access to the supply.
With electronics and other consumer goods, these will be imported and sold freely in Mexico and Canada. So anyone can buy them. And once inside the US then there’s a massive digital market to resell them, after all there’s nothing illegal about reselling that iPhone or Nike shoes you bought but never used or even unboxed. This is similar to the reason people steal Amazon deliveries. Fencing the stolen items is really easy.
So it’s easy to smuggle stuff (especially at low volume), easy to buy the product, easy to sell it. The effect of these tariffs is going to be an absolute explosion of cross border smuggling in to the US. It’ll make focusing on drugs and people trafficking really hard. It’s is going to completely undermine effective border control. It’s ironic because Trump has built his political career around the idea of border security. But these protectionist tariffs will undermine that project.
Large systems with strong economic incentives are complicated and hard. The global economy is the largest of these complicated systems.

2025-04-09 20:40:24

Signal is the best private messaging system available to a non-technical consumer. But it’s not designed for classified communications. And you can get better security and privacy but there are real trade offs. This is all ok.
#note186p…cel7

2025-04-09 20:36:31

Bugger. I mostly switched to using a Mac Mini and gave it a new password to unlock the OS. Now I’m in a cafe with a laptop while my car gets its regular “warranty of fitness” inspection and I don’t remember my old laptop password. At least pre-coffee I can’t remember it.

2025-04-09 03:02:11

The people who build large electronics and other stores among the borders of the US are going to make a bundle. We’ve seen this story around the world. #tariffs

2025-04-07 19:44:16

I’m excited to @npub1yau…vjmf to take on the nostr signer extension task!
#note1v75…yr8d

2025-04-07 02:06:13

This prediction about potential futures of AI and the world are both fascinating and terrifying. I highly recommend you spend the time to read it.
https://ai-2027.com

2025-04-06 20:17:02

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I mean there is a lot of engineering to handle the intense rain. Mostly due to drainage systems and dikes.
If you’re asking if the government is somehow causing this? There was a government transparency investigation and there is no coordinated or organized effort to bring about more rain. That’s a right wing conspiracy. It comes up with a center left coalition, but the current government has all the center and right wing parties in power. If there was some government program like the conspiracy theories claim, they’d expose it.
Anyway, New Zealand is just in a part of the world that gets lots of rain coming in very intense storms.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-whole-truth/300802897/the-whole-truth-no-cloud-seeding-isnt-causing-all-this-awful-weather

2025-04-06 12:56:05

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I strongly believe in reparations for colonialism and that not enough has been done, but i find land acknowledgments to be kind of weird and hollow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQyFfC7_U-E

2025-04-06 12:46:28

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@npub1fa8…thnd well you could go to Svalbard, it’s a semi-autonomous region with no restrictions or visa requirements on who could move or live there.
Or if you wanted to find a jurisdiction which was both un-inhabited AND low tariff you could settle the Heard and McDonald Islands!

2025-04-06 11:51:17

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Basically the entire idea of Spotify is they took the streaming model of p2p apps and made it owned and controlled by the labels. That’s why it exists.

2025-04-06 11:26:56

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It’s not really a mystery … they made a deal where the music labels became co-owners of Spotify. It’s a cartel.

2025-04-06 11:24:26

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Mostly quality of life, i wanted to be in a place that felt welcoming, safe, transparent, and was above all a high trust society.
This is a bit more about what i’m doing here: https://www.ehf.org/read/decentralised-social-media-by-and-for-the-people

2025-04-06 11:11:50

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It’s why the streets with shops and in the city center all have awning which completely protect the sidewalk from rain. People need a way of getting out of the rain when it comes.

2025-04-06 11:06:04

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Well yes, Hobbiton is in the Waikato so they only got 4.5 inches of rain in this storm!

2025-04-06 10:58:37

New Zealand gets a lot of rainfall in storms but this past few days it’s been particularly notable.
https://image.nostr.build/a15830845f9383360449548de4ca1b1b7daa206737082bb601d86e3e2b9c29c2.jpg
For folks who don’t speak metric, that’s 13 inches in a 24 hour period, and over 16 inches of rainfall in some places over 36 hours. It did cause some flooding!
It’s about as much rain in 36 hours as Los Angeles, Denver, Anchorage, Calgary, or Madrid get in a full year.

2025-04-06 09:58:10

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document it for us please ;-D

2025-04-06 09:52:47

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That's stupid, the US was just as colonized as Canada... and frankly has done a worse job of working with it's first nations people.
I don't see how that is a leftist position.

2025-04-06 08:25:15

Well this silly #hellthread did get me to finally go and update the notification and mute settings on @npub1pu3…tfch with better options and defaults.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos/pull/1775

2025-04-05 23:27:06

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They’ve been put on torrent sites too ;=D

2025-04-02 18:59:27

What is your why for building #Nostr and #FreedomTech?
#note1nyk…zt7j

2025-04-02 18:58:12

I think the work @npub1xsp…62dr is doing in terms of using Nostr as a tool to annotate blockchain content is interesting. So much of the bitcoiners see other blockchain projects as speculative “shitcoins” that they don’t see the ways that smart contracts and decentralized blockchain based protocols can do new and powerful things.
One of my problems with the blockchain projects is they often try and put everything on chain. A kind of your only tool is the blockchain hammer, so everything looks like a smart contract nail, type issues. But if you only put the minimal amount of content that requires universal consensus on chain you can do the rest with Nostr.
We need Nostr to grow beyond its bitcoin core.
#note1p39…d67s

2025-04-02 09:40:29

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Aider and Claude code both work much better than the IDE based ai coding systems for me

2025-04-01 03:08:37

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The quote i use at the end is something i stand by, but i also think it’s why i think we need a diverse ecosystem based on a protocol for social media. It let’s me run clients and relays with different rules from the ones you want to run. If you don’t like my app, or relay, or communities, then you’re empowered to choose others. But if we have a single unified corporate platform then everybody will play the refs and game the system. There’s no win for free speech in that situation.

2025-04-01 01:30:43

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You should start with fixing your device, then actually look at the site not my cliff notes version with a link ;-D

2025-04-01 00:04:06

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There’s no grounds for revoking their visa based on constitutionally protected speech. The courts have ruled many times that immigrants have the constitutional right to freedom of speech, assembly, due process, and equal protection under the law.
Either we scrap the constitutional rights and the courts reinterpret the constitution or these people deserve a day in court if the government feels they’ve done something bad enough revoke their visa. And that thing legally can not be what they said or what protest they attended. If they were arrested for say breaking a window at the protest, that’s a crime and they could be charged, put on trial, convicted of that and have their visa revoked. Because of what they did and not what they said.

2025-03-31 23:58:29

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Like if we want to have a law which says social media posts promoting the Palestinian cause is illegal material support of terrorism then get that law passed or get the courts to rule that social media posts are material support.
Then go and investigate and arrest people who commit that crime. If convicted of the crime, then they can either directly be deported or serve their sentence and then be deported.
But what’s happening is not that legal process. It’s using an AI bot to find posts which might express a political view which might be by the person you think it is, which might be illegal. If it’s a crime, get a warrant to get records from social media companies and identify the actual person responsible for posting that illegal material.
Personally I’m on Nostr because I don’t believe the state has any business punishing people for their speech. But sounds like you the idea that a government official can just decide what people can and can not say.

2025-03-31 23:50:26

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But these folks wrote editorials and held protests asking for an end to the war in Gaza. Not in any way endorsing or providing any material support to Hamas.
And even if they did violate that law and provide real material support for Hamas or other designated terrorist organization then they should be arrested, charged, put on trial, and found guilty of that crime. Then and only then would it make sense to revoke their visa. If what they did was illegal then charge them and use that conviction to justify their being deported. Immigrants and permanent residents deserve their day in court and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

2025-03-31 23:45:41

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@npub1n0s…ce54 the US legal system is very clear that immigrants and people on temporary visas have constitutional rights to free speech, political association, equal protection under the law, and due process. I think those things which are important parts of the American system are really good and should be defended.
Do I want immigrants supporting Dylan Roof or the KKK? No, but I do want a society that protects free speech. Just like I build on Nostr because I believe in building an internet where people can say things I don’t like or want to hear. I’m very confused to find people who advocate for censorship and authoritarianism on a platform like Nostr.

2025-03-31 19:19:40

This car has an awesome license plate.
https://i.nostr.build/lfnfqu2lNGO4vRyL.jpg

2025-03-31 19:15:18

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Or you could be aware that there’s massive strategic and cultural advantage to having foreign students coming to learn in your country. You get to sell them on your culture, language, model of working. If you believe in a nationalist competition between countries you what their best people to come study, work, and research in your country. You win the talent war.

2025-03-31 18:31:22

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Twitter used to have this feature in a way, you could go to a person’s profile and see twitter from that user’s perspective. But the problem was calculating the intersect of what accounts were public/private/blocked in between the profile you’re viewing and your own user.
The npub way doesn’t have that issue because we don’t have private accounts, and mutes could be applied easily at view time.

2025-03-31 18:16:01

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Where did i say we should bend the knee and ask governments for these rights? Or choose to use some platform that users themselves don’t control?

2025-03-31 18:12:16

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@npub1ej4…ndrm the most successful part of American society is military and political support for Israel?
And if somebody commits a crime, they can be arrested, charged, put on trial, get a chance to defend themselves, and then face conviction. If they’re breaking a law, there is a process for that. It’s an important part of the 5th amendment equal protection and due process parts of the constitution. After being convicted for an of the illegal acts you mention, then by all revoke their visa.
But if you’re revoking visas of people for constitutionally protected legal speech without a legal due process, that’s the not consistent with aspirations of what America could be.

2025-03-30 23:05:46

Right wing politicians in New Zealand are demanding a parliamentary investigation as to what the word “bussy” means.
Oh my… this would be pathetic if it weren’t for the death threats against queer politicians in NZ’s parliament.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/green-mp-benjamin-doyle-faces-immense-death-threats-and-abuse-over-social-media-account/JGFVVTGZY5D5VBCX6YXGO52IJU/

2025-03-30 22:42:59

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@npub1c85…6lkc what are you even talking about?

2025-03-30 21:25:24

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Yep, but we tried to do it on top of XMPP…. This was back in 2007 and 2008! Ages ago. Honestly a lot of decentralized tech needed to be developed in order for it to work. We were too early.
https://www.slideshare.net/blaine
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/07/30/xmpp_rest/
http://scripting.com/stories/2008/01/21/xmppAsTheBasisForInteropIn.html
https://xmpp.org/2008/09/xmpp-roundup-1/

2025-03-30 20:42:15

This is neat. https://github.com/bostonaholic/reflect

2025-03-30 20:27:39

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Looks good!

2025-03-30 20:11:34

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You can get the first three episodes on the pirate bay ;-D https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=breaking+the+bird

2025-03-30 20:07:50

Live TV is so surreal… anyway, here’s a screencap of my live interview on CNN…. I got Nostr mentioned! Protocols are the future, we just need to build it.
https://v.nostr.build/HeYdbj9AUZmYXvJx.mp4

2025-03-30 20:02:29

I managed to focus on the protocol future! I got Nostr mentioned! These live interviews are so stressful.
#note1erh…5k3u

2025-03-30 19:41:06

I’ll be back on CNN live at the top of the hour, in 20 minutes, talking about the Breaking the Bird documentary. Twitter should always have been a protocol, and now we have that. We’ll see what i’m able to get in, these things go so fast.

2025-03-30 18:22:51

This is what happens when we decide that the legal system and due process shouldn't apply. The government decides they're going to deport spanish speakers with tattoos because some gang members have tattoos and speak spanish. But then because there's not equal protection or due process rights, a guy with a rainbow autism awareness tattoo ends up in a salvadorian prision without any way to pleed his case. How does he get out of that prision? What happens if they don't like your tattoos? Or what some bot pretending to be you posted online? #nevent1q…02w2

2025-03-30 18:06:11

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@npub19vv…t562 well these foreign students didn’t get to vote for or against this. I’m less concerned about the fact they used AI than there’s a lack of first and fifth amendment protections.

2025-03-30 18:04:03

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Everybody in the US is due legal rights based on the constitution, not the same rights as citizens but the courts have ruled many times that temporary visa holders in the US do have the right to legal due process and free speech.
The US political system prevents tyranny through a system of checks and balances between different branches of the government. The entire system was designed to prevent anybody executing king like powers in the executive. If i want rights for myself, especially the right to a day in court if i’m accused of violating the law, then i have to demand those rights be upheld for others.

2025-03-30 17:39:43

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Because the courts have ruled student visa holders don’t have the right to bear arms but they do have the right to due process and freedom of speech.
And the courts are how we enforce and protect the constitution.

2025-03-30 17:35:42

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Does Japan revoke visas for people based on a bot making political posts claiming to be foreign students? Because without due process we have no way of knowing if the posts on those social media accounts are actually by the students.
And what’s more, the US legal system clearly states that the constitutional protections of free speech and due process do apply to everyone, including student visa holders and not just citizens. So what matters is what is legal in the US not what is legal in Japan.

2025-03-30 17:30:05

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Yes there are restrictions. But student visa holders rights to free speech and due process aren’t among those restrictions.
Can a student visa holder provide material support to a designated terrorist organization? Not under current US law. But they have the right to legal due process.
If you believe in freedom and are concerned about a government taking away your freedom then you should be concerned about other people’s freedom as well. Especially if happens without any way to appeal to the legal system. These students deserve the right to defend themselves before the law.

2025-03-30 17:23:11

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@npub18lm…99uz yep, the ability to understand what and how to ask the question becomes more important than knowing the answers.
There was a time when the ability to read without moving your lips was considered a giant intellectual achievement. Then we developed the “technology” of writing out vowels in words and not just consonants. This technological innovation meant reading got much easier. There were actual debates at the time that said that writing with vowels was cheapening the mind and reducing people’s ability to think. Now we’re happy to have an easier writing system. The very same argument was made saying listening to an audio book wasn’t really reading it. Or using an LLM is undermining the intellect.

2025-03-30 17:15:43

Looks like they’re running some AI agent to try and match foreign students to social media accounts. If the US State department doesn’t like the politics of the posts the visa is being revoked. The thing is everyone in the US is protected by the constitution, not just citizens. So this is overturning fundamental rights to free speech and due process.
There is no way for these students to contest this. Many people don’t put their full name on social media, often people have the same name. So not only will this violate students first and fifth amendment protections, it will likely be applied to students who simply share the same name or are confused with other students who expressed a political view the government doesn’t like.
If this program continues it means that no foreign student in the US is safe from arbitrary deportation. All it takes is someone making a bot pretending to be that student making posts the administration doesn’t like. Since there is no process by which the student can even demonstrate the account is fake!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms#
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/

2025-03-30 10:42:46

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Did you look at the site? That’s kind of the whole point. We only get rights on open protocols.

2025-03-30 09:16:02

I believe we need some fundamental rights on any social media platform or protocol we use.
The rights are:
1. Privacy & Security
2. Ownership
3. Interoperability
4. Algorithmic Control
5. Self-Governance
I’ve created a little website to campaign for these rights at https://rights.social.

2025-03-30 08:27:20

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I kind of love the minimalist design of metaname.nz

2025-03-30 08:01:44

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they don’t appear to actually have relationships with many registries, there’s only a couple dozen top level domains you can buy with 1984.is unfortunately.

2025-03-30 07:54:52

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yeah CF can be complicated but honestly i much prefer using CF for stuff than Google Cloud / AWS / Azure / Digital Ocean.
I’ve used 1984.is for hosting in the past, i forgot they also run a registar. They’re probably the most ethical.

2025-03-30 07:47:54

Anybody got a good ethical domain name registrar? I’ve been using Gandi.net since it was founded 25 years ago, but it got acquired by your.online in 2023. For a while nothing much changed except for they tried to upsell me to some stuff i didn’t want.
But now i’m noticing that they’re getting noticeably less reliable. Updating name and nameserver records isn’t reliable, paying for things fails more often, their web interface has bugs. Basically they’re letting gandi die as they try and upsell people to their crap Total Webhosting Solutions stuff.
So, what ethical registrars are there?