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Writing a book about Nostr

Public Key

npub1t6jxfqz9hv0lygn9thwndekuahwyxkgvycyscjrtauuw73gd5k7sqvksrw

NIP-57 Address

constant@zbd.gg

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9afryspzmk8ljyfj4mhfkumwwmhzrtyxzvzgvfp477w80g5x6t0gpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgewaehxw309ahx7um5wgh85etzv4jx2efwvdkx7atyhhjexs

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relay.nostr.band

nostr.zebedee.cloud

Author Public Key

npub1t6jxfqz9hv0lygn9thwndekuahwyxkgvycyscjrtauuw73gd5k7sqvksrw

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2024-11-08 00:27:50

#profilepicstr
Apparently there are also people like @nprofile…hhmx who go around and make squint AI versions of peoples profile pictures.
It is kinda like the portrait paintings of old, where you get an artists impression of you. Perhaps these profile picture portraits end up the same as those paintings:
All collected under one roof and displayed in the name of the artist; and those presented on the image relegated with their name to the little placard on the side that perhaps some read, but nobody really cares about.
#nevent1q…4x0z

2024-11-02 05:57:27

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Well all of that will become clear in due time, on 11-11.

2024-10-29 13:56:12

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Probably a Chinese spy:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl23xlrzp2o

2024-10-27 09:42:30

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Your mom is ever changing

2024-10-27 09:38:49

Well, fuck me i guess. Can these devs stop what they are doing for a couple of months, so I have a static thing to describe instead of some shifting amalgam of activity and usecases?
Cool, thnx

2024-10-24 11:06:17

Authoritative servers (platforms) are nice because supposedly they have a bunch of advantages.
One such advantage is that they provide things like ‘global search’ and sensible like and follow counts, as opposed to something like Nostr where search sucks and likes and follows may as well be meaningless given how trivial sybil attacks are.
Somehow we believe this yet... You can buy likes and followers for these platforms, and it happens all the time. At least you can find everything that is on there, which is true, but also the point; you only see that is on THERE. Say you have a tweet, and its very popular. You can see all the tweets that are in response; but what a search function on a platform wont show you is all the conversations that happen in response to that tweet on forums and public chats elsewhere. The status quo already is chaos, and always will be.
The name of the game is providing sufficient order. The current platforms did that, their order is ‘sufficient’, perhaps by lack of viable alternative. And frankly, whatever order that exists on Nostr currently, is by lack of attack. But the thesis/belief behind Nostr is that whatever spam or sybil nightmares we will face, they can be mitigated. By means of trusted absolutes from authoritative servers and recommended follow and block-lists, an option that is still open to us; or by fancy WoT where you take an explicit probabilistic approach to glean signal from the endless noise. Or a combination of the two.
A.I. perhaps above all constitutes automated quality noise generation; as a result the noise floor increases and determining signal gets harder. Chaos is increasing, and the only direction platforms have is to become more totalitarian; increase barriers of entry by demanding more information and control, to keep their pretense of order alive. I don't expect the masses would reject this trend, and suspect they will go along; how ever many people these platforms will marginalize, that subsequently may find a home via Nostr, wont be what will win it for us (albeit enough reason to exist in the first place).
If we win, we will win because we are more flexible in dealing with the problems at hand.

2024-10-23 13:03:13

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The great thing is there is an almost endless supply
https://cdn.satellite.earth/a4267f5bffa6d4b5a2d6e355e228797e07af581a598b026932d453f1874ba791.mp3

2024-10-22 00:34:18

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When listening to the whole presentation, this part made me think of an earlier moment in the day:
where while scrolling through my feed I saw a PSA that you took a bath, with included limb-in-bathtub as proof for those that might worry if this whole bath taking thing was just a ruse.
I included that first bit with “the point here isn’t to deride either mode of cognition and communication’’ in the clip as a way of it saying its not necessarily critique; just observation.

2024-10-21 14:53:28

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Perhaps its because i can pay using a stupid telegram bot.
Also a bit ironic that i pay for an hour of LNvpn; to access torrent sites so i can watch stuff without paying🤔
If there are subscription paywalls i will still either find a leak, or dont bother most probably.

2024-10-20 19:31:37

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Dont forget to timestamp it.
I dont get the canary analogy; the canary is the thing that dies first as an early warning; in your scenario that npub is supposed to die (idealy not at all) last.

2024-10-19 23:23:27

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Thats a lot of cultivation for sure.

2024-10-18 00:58:02

Venjent is a Drum and Bass artist, that appears to have traction. He got attention by way of making shorts with remixes using samples of semi-ordinary sounds from other videos.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/9d9475c0460051997da4a7e69b8c456ee63c4353f516dbcfcae4ebe01308879f.mp4
And later turning them into full songs.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/8d21d8d9d60322227614f35d616bea5e7e45b9a14d484f8d6105e3becbd314b3.mp4
He clearly is filling a bit of a void within Drum and Bass, which is a sentiment reflected many of the comments on his videos.
All of this got me thinking, what would be needed for an artist like Venjent, to establish himself on Nostr?
The sales pitch for content creators is one of sustainability/robustness in ‘presence’; you can claim a name and build a following on it where you can keep your content available. But is this currently true? Somewhat true? Mostly a promise for the future?
Lets ignore the headache that is key management for a moment (convenient, I know). What about the content? We appear to be settling on blossom; or how a random person once put it:
‘IPFS that works’
But does it? How resilient are those videos that I share in this post? How easy is it for me to host this stuff elsewhere; and how good are the clients in figuring out a different source when the original link is dead? How smooth is it now, and how seamless will it become?
Now I am not arguing that everything has to still be there in a 100 years, and stuff can function fine for a while before initial links break; but what if you want to keep your things around, can you?
And is it actually an important component in convincing content creators to come to Nostr, do they care?
Currently Venjent is on youtube with 808k subs, where his latest release got around 30k views in a day. So he is doing well there. Would be cool to see artist explore Nostr. Perhaps even cooler if at some point in the future, new artist instead of on youtube or tiktok, rise up here.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/5e9167f19a016a5d677654729f352853f98cbb22dad35873ff6c615b86f69f5b.mp4

2024-10-17 20:28:06

Hello
#nevent1q…sgg8

2024-10-17 04:13:26

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I guess the point of both is that we dont have to be on the same team

2024-10-16 14:08:38

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#nevent1q…u8pv

2024-10-15 11:09:31

Yesterday I made a post berating anyone who comes to Nostr with an expectation of privacy. So today I will take the other side, because I really hope we get towards decent DMs and groupchats would be even better.
This is because I really dislike this ‘micro blogging’ throwing posts into the vast open world for anyone to see. There is no context to them and tends towards the parasocial really quickly; its faux social for the most part if you ask me.
Meanwhile groupchats are an actual ongoing conversation with therefor its own context and everyone getting to know everyone else; it is only after they get really big that you get about the same dynamic as with regular micro blogging.
From a technical standpoint I am not sure if ‘nostr-native’ groupchats are a good idea compared to integrating a build for purpose protocol; we will see.
For me it boils down to the fact that I don’t want followers, I want peers.
Here is a picture of baby deer following their parent, have a nice day.
https://image.nostr.build/9de7a2a1ba1f20090259e2d854e0091c8a7ad6f9c966c3a4faa767ae69fa2bfa.jpg

2024-10-14 18:28:41

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To give a quote from the Carrol Quigley lecture i shared in my other responce:
"the state is a good state if it is sovereign and if it is responsible. The idea that the state has to be any of these other things, such as, for example, democratic, is more or less incidental. If democracy reflects the structure of society's power, then the state has to be democratic. But if the reflection of power, and the pattern of power, in a society is not a democratic pattern, then you cannot have a democratic state. This is what happens in Latin America, and Africa, and places like this, where they have an election and the army doesn't like who's elected, so they move in and kick him out and put somebody else in. That's because the election did not reflect the power situation, in which the dominant thing is organized force. So when I say governments have to be responsible, I'm saying the same thing as I said when I said that they have to be legitimate, i.e., that they have to reflect the power structure of the society. Politics is the area for establishing responsibility by legitimizing power, i.e., somehow demonstrating to people that the power structure is this. And it may take a revolution, such as the French Revolution, or it may take a war, like the American Civil War. In the American Civil War in 19, 1861 the structure of power in the United States was such -- perhaps unfortunately, I don't know -- that the South could not leave unless the North was willing. It was that simple. But it took a war to prove it."

2024-10-14 18:18:44

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What comes to mind is a series of lectures given by Carrol Quigley (historian) called:
“Public Authority and the State in the Western Tradition: A Thousand Years of Growth, 976-1976”
If I recall correctly, it is in this series he discusses the impact of means of violence and warfare on the character and scale of states. I think the third and last part is most relevant. It should provide a starting off point of reference to ponder the topic.
The audio quality is terrible even to the point the transcript (there is one so you can also decide to read), has holes in it due to inaudibility issues. So sorry for presenting a piece of shit of over 4 hours; but I promise it is a diamond.
Part 1:
http://www.carrollquigley.net/Lectures/The-State-of-Communities-AD-976-1576.htm
Part 2:
http://www.carrollquigley.net/Lectures/The-State-of-Individuals-AD-1776-1976.htm
Part 3:
http://www.carrollquigley.net/Lectures/The-State-of-Individuals-AD-1776-1976.htm

2024-10-14 15:41:53

I just saw someone complaining a new offered feature on Nostr somewhere is surveillance. For all the people who have yet to get a clue, a public service announcement:
You are interacting on a publication protocol, everything here is primarily public in nature; ‘the internet does not forget’ applies to Nostr as well.
The main difference with platforms here, is that its easier for any random party to go scrape, assess, profile, index and ‘surveil’ the living fuck out of you because they don’t need privileged API access since all the data is out in the open instead of inside a walled garden.
Now I can go into all sorts of nuance on the application of encryption, private-relays/relay policy and what not, but that is not the point. The point is that data want to be free, you don’t ‘control’ your data, and that you are an idiot if you think you wont be ‘surveilled’ when you publicize stuff online for everyone to see.
Now this is a nice tie-in into the notion of reputation, but il keep that for another time.
Here is a picture of a baby deer jumping, have a nice day.
https://image.nostr.build/c65d40e549a827c7e14f3669b77f7194a9033841d6471d21a88cd3356f48b12f.jpg

2024-10-13 15:26:06

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Soon we will have the required tech to fix that first part for you.
https://image.nostr.build/85e3224f149f4b86c0d4d578c740a1de70555e1ca999438926269bf7224a34bf.jpg

2024-10-13 15:08:33

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Unfortunatly i can reliably reproduce the steps to get to the CSAM i came across, but i wont share it. But it was not something that popped up in my feed, but as a result of a search query (to something completely unrelated to the CSAM obviously).
In this case they were kind 1063 events, hosted on one of the bigger relays that a lot of people use.
Normally 1063 event contain a URL and content (in this case a picture) is hosted somewhere else. Here, it was not a URL but the raw file in base64 encoding, which the client is then supposed to translate to a webp (though this is not part of the NIP-94 spec).
How clients handle this varies, i happened to use one at the time that is able to handle this stuff, so it displays the picture direcly. Most other clients i have tried dont and just produce a raw base64-string (luckely in this case) without transforming it into a webp picture. Or a download button that does nothing (because there is no actual url there)

2024-10-13 14:31:53

Hello Nostr, if you are in a great mood just skip this post; its depressing.
So I had not encountered it before, but yesterday I crossed paths with Child Sexual Abuse Material on Nostr. In my regular internet usage over the years I have rarely come across this stuff, though I guess if I were to look for it I would find it eventually;
That is to say, the status quo is that it does exist, but most people most of the time wont have to deal with it. I think this is important to realize that the world is not perfect as it is, when reflecting on these matters in the context of Nostr.
It goes without saying, but just to be clear: yes I think we should all learn how to tie nooses and identify adequate oak trees.
However marginalized CSAM is, some people want governments to go above and beyond to combat it. Prime example currently is the ‘Chat control’ regulation proposed out of the EU, which wants to install bigbrother client side on your phone to scan every single thing you do in order to flag any suspicious behavior/content, before it gets encrypted. How understandable the motivation might be, even advocacy groups and agencies dealing with the CSAM problem are against this type of stuff, if not just simply because they are already swamped with work/processing of material as it is; opening the floodgates with false positives wont help anything and probably make the situation worse. Aside from the obvious objections to forcibly installing big brother on peoples hardware of course.
Back to Nostr. On the one hand we have the end-user, that does not want to get confronted by this material. From this perspective, CSAM is just one of the many things a user might want to filter out, along with other material that might not be illegal per se but just NSFW etc. Whatever means we find to do this, failure by those mechanisms to do so is bad, unwanted etc. but not a direct systemic risk to Nostr; like I mentioned in the beginning, it is not impossible to accidentally come across this type of stuff on the internet today as is, and the whole world is still using it.
But it does become a systemic issue from the relay perspective. Here, it is not some incidental bad experience that can be clicked away. It is a crime to host this type of material which brings in the risk of prosecution for ‘simply running a relay’ that some asshole decided to nuke with CSAM or other illegal material.
But here my optimism comes in. Nostr is pro censorship; the theory is that every relay can moderate to their hearts content, because users are ultimately always able to route around such obstacles (very much like ‘the internet’ itself). This means that that relays should be able to adjust their policies and methods of moderation to their capacity to deal with unwanted content and risk appetite. From a locked down white-list only relay on one side of the spectrum, all the way to an open relay with heavy sophisticated analytics for assessment and filtering, and everything in between: albeit that it wont deliver us a perfect solution in all cases, it will remove the dark cloud of systemic risk to the protocol/network, because we are able to sufficiently marginalize the phenomena.
On a last note: when talking about filtering/assessing for this content it gets complicated really quickly. You can imagine some AI performing such a task, or using lists of known content to filter; however you want to do it, you first come to the question on how you construct that stuff in the first place; it requires gathering such content and human eyes looking at it. And then subsequently you produce tooling that can be flipped around and used as a search engine to seek and find such material instead of filtering it away. So yeah, there are no graceful perfect solutions I am afraid.
Well, there is one of course….
https://cdn.satellite.earth/a92bdd80dbd45e00636a9db615061eef168c3164a0e1bfa1abfb0784e74cd24e.mp3

2024-10-12 23:53:00

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I have serious issues with the anthropomorphisation of machines; i get they are modeled after the human body because it is a sensible way to interface with the outside world (mostly because it is already structured for us humans). I can also (somewhat reluctantly) understand that 'talking' like a human is a nice/simpel way for us human to interact with the machine.
But the thing does not need to emulate emotions, does not need to say 'euh' and whatnot while speaking, does not need a 'face' with emotional expressions, and sure as hell does not need a creator that suggest the thing could be your friend.
People designing these things (not just robots, much of the AI stuff as well) with the notion that not able to differantiate between it and a real human is the holy grail/goal, because it smoothens out interactions, are very dangerous.

2024-10-12 20:16:10

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Managed to take a picture of one of the many many many rats as well?

2024-10-12 13:57:20

Thus concludes my forrest picture presentation for now.
Time, such a fascinating thing, inescapably ever moving onwards. Winter is coming:
https://cdn.satellite.earth/6761a5ff81c5a5ac3daa74e0d33cddf4912b770a13d272b933499839b5b03757.mp4

2024-10-12 13:44:33

Timestamps only give very weak indications of truth; but they are really good at catching certain lies.
Take for example the following note:
#nevent1q…gvfg
your client may have a hard time loading it, depending on when you look at this post. This is because the event claims to be signed at Thu Oct 17 2024 03:00:00 GMT. Given it is currently Oct 12, this is a blatant lie, and relays tend to not accept this event because of this.
But, what happens in 5 days? As soon we pass that 3 o’clock mark on oct 17, how would any outsider know that this event was not signed at that time, but 5 days earlier? It is easy to catch these sort of lies when you are present in real time and pay attention, but if you arrive after the fact, NIP-03 timestamps allow you to identify such a lie for certain if adequate proof exists.
And in this case, this proof does exist! Because I timestamped this event already, tying it into block 865274, which was mined around 05:31, oct 12. Which results in the following screenshot of Amethyst:
https://image.nostr.build/01ca55a150444cab7b3025b70f9c1dab7c1382a3d54ed3faefaa722ee2f208aa.jpg
The app claims the event was posted ‘now’ (probably because it simply interprets any date in the future as ‘now’), but also tells me a timestamp exists that is 9 hours old.
Now this particular type of lying (pretending to be in the future), it not all that interesting, I was just curious. But it does go to show that you should not trust the time the event claims it was signed, because it is trivially easy to lie about it.
Say hello to my fren btw: https://image.nostr.build/ec4b37e2d259015f1a3b9b39b4163c98ceab56ead83bd08ce82350a061c7814c.jpg

2024-10-12 02:54:27

Everyone can timestamp everything at any time; the time-proof is valid regardless of who initiates its creation.
For example, at 01:37 on okt 12, I signed this kind 1040 event:
#nevent1q…pa2r
Which contains a proof that this kind 1 event can be tied into bitcoin block 865239:
#nevent1q…7t4j
And the timestamp of block 865239, is 00:02 on okt 12.
The event itself claims it was signed 22:11 on oct 11; this may be a lie still, but at least it was not signed much more than 1 hours and 51 minutes later.
Aside from all these time related dates, the described lunch date could also just be a complete fabrication of course; at the very least the pictures correspond with the stated dishes
#woodpeckestr
https://image.nostr.build/9e12ea3eb66e2b686539abe9349b4d205b2ccde17bdbc30c65b9ad5953ace901.jpg

2024-10-11 20:42:30

Brave future historian, who will have to grapple with the archives of our time. Atleast you now know this event:
#nevent1q…yaj3
was signed before oct 11, 21:25
The forest picture links will die however, so our future historian probably cant enjoy this picture taken at noon on sept 11.
https://image.nostr.build/9de31423950b4cc0003820794f7a1d907f7c5d5fc95cdf3104d21a5bb3cc2794.jpg

2024-10-11 18:49:30

Amethyst now lets you create NIP-03, Bitcoin based Open Time Stamps.
Unfortunatly i cut off the timestamp that is part of the original version of this picture (because it is ugly), so you will never know this foto was taken on july 12, 09:54. https://image.nostr.build/4f96ab676d551e4866b1d4856a8db756b53e094e17ba3c9bb75ff24ecd54839b.jpg
#forestr

2024-10-11 02:10:29

To everyone whose phone i have harassed with my nfc card that therefor now see this message:
This is actually a forrest picture channel
https://image.nostr.build/2df97ead480b057df1a9a622f12c6209d82cfd4cc7e4e3f9254267a7199ec46e.jpg

2024-10-07 17:48:13

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#bitcoinreliesonapreexistingconsensusontime

2024-10-02 00:07:30

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Yes, it is a dumb idea; expecting the masses to deal with key management by themselves in the forseable future is also a dumb idea though...so, here we are

2024-10-02 00:00:55

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in trafic lights those colors are in different positions though. So either do that, or opt for something gruesome like purple

2024-10-01 23:08:31

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and yes, this will be the only feedback i will give

2024-10-01 23:07:44

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switching something from yellow to green is terrible UI, just saying.

2024-09-29 20:25:52

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The correct variation of human*
- fix

2024-09-16 10:52:13

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my point is that those failure tollerances includes a callender that you have fuck all to do with is my point :).
Maybe the internet archive could pick up that ball

2024-09-16 10:40:40

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Ok let me rephrase it; ideally at some point enough interest (be it commercial, or public, academic or whatever) is there for some entity to run a commercial/'professional' callender where businesses, states, whomever, pay that entity for this service. Which subsequently leaves your efforts as a 'community' backbone.
Or do you see this differently? Sir, are you mad for power to become the sole timestamping overlord of the universe?

2024-09-16 10:22:14

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i'd say stick to the 5 hours and keep your effort as an OTS backbone; hopefully OTS will at some point catchs some usecase for a party for which the cost are marginal enough they will set up a calender that stamps more frequently.

2024-09-15 18:54:39

Do it!
https://geyser.fund/project/nostrboothbitcoinamsterdam/
https://cdn.satellite.earth/d7887b7c4ff9f467957b785abd3ae2d27eac74b5f6fb41b8acd3c8ba186538de.mp4

2024-09-15 02:15:15

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''Often, the last part of the line (Thucydides: “do not shrink from the dangers of war” or "do not look about for the dangers of war", i.e. so that you hesitate) is left out.''
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/classics/research/thucydides/ttt/text/

2024-09-13 16:41:11

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TLDR:
If you demand timestamps, it forces a lie to be made up in advance and cant be made after the fact. This gives truth a defensive advantage.
If you dont understand what that means, dont ask for tldr's in the future.

2024-09-09 20:39:04

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appearently that is how the japanese use Nostr

2024-09-02 12:33:05

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then i will redirect you to the original statement that explicitly speaks about trust-minimization. And i hope we can both agree that custodial sollutions have nothing to do with that because they are trusted.

2024-08-31 16:16:58

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No, the small lighting transactions are not actually ''real'' lightning transactions, but besides that it will always boil down to your ability to close a channel; which is an onchain transaction. Lightning does not reduce that threshold of onchain fee's, but it allows you to distribute those costs over many interactions.
Note, i use lighting (and for small tx's), all the time, to get a shorttime vpn or silly AI pictures.

2024-08-31 14:10:23

The presentation i gave during Nostriga.
Nostr's adoption thesis; the less you define, the more you imply.
According to a review:
''the title you gave was very baity and not very clearly related to the content though, you invited the questions about mass adoption that you got at the end. But your answers to the questions are good and useful, even though completely unrelated to the talk''
https://cdn.satellite.earth/1dc27d3848fbd4cedb084a96719ad6c0914d1ff2d55c2d612fdf56ea91c5dc9c.mp4

2024-08-04 20:07:04

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I use it all the time. sometimes some countries dont work but overall its fine.

2024-08-03 16:55:12

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my IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 did not work anymore eventually, but thats after many many many years of intensive use and abuse, and probably a cable problem anyway.

2024-08-01 13:57:30

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No1 should post anything ever for this exact reason. Social media is a foolish endevour by default.

2024-08-01 08:09:05

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You know by the lack of streetsounds this cant possibly be fiatjaf

2024-07-31 23:58:43

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Fancy pancy scripts dont make low value tx possible, it makes 'high value'(those that meet the economic thresshold in the first place), more efficient

2024-07-31 23:56:50

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The unit is not the UTXO, its the keys able to create a valid tx defined within the script of the UTXO (within economic constrains)

2024-07-28 18:28:58

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No idea what this thread is about, but i object to this statement out of principle

2024-07-26 14:45:35

https://blob.satellite.earth/756de1c3a4fe5db9df6804231888f7268e87cbf3f21eaf88f435c4168cc68bad

2024-07-24 23:47:35

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Well , i ran out of ideas you see .
What do people post online, that is currently categorized in some sort of social app ? pictures, tweets, videos...rEciPeS....
....there is this thing where you can track your vacation by posting little updates and then with 1 press of a button compile the whole thing into a book ....
So after 'vacations' , i had no other options to resort to the tits, which, lets be honest, constitutes a large part of the web .
Hence, bobs silly tits were born ;
it was fate, really.

2024-07-24 17:29:09

https://cdn.satellite.earth/3e98960184315fd1ab5cf3b06ba21f077aab206ab58c2fdc4db6804c3bcc6460.mp4

2024-07-22 20:15:02

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well, if, i'd suggest girls in bikinis, not a slideshow with crappy AI pictures an MSpaint edits. Just sayin

2024-07-22 19:52:09

https://cdn.satellite.earth/6806a8ba583c75b8d6ebf10ea501e973a85564c88b810717ef6b635d477753b1.mp4

2024-07-20 09:30:07

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Not sure, unless rockets, EVs, tunnels and w/e else that dude is doing are is hobbies.

2024-07-19 15:41:12

https://cdn.satellite.earth/8fa94766caa6a835b55def45e1ad09d3fce960e6eb57df4abd7ac5604f6a7efe.mp4

2024-07-04 11:33:13

To a large extend people were already transparent in the current paradigm, and remain so in this potential next one. The mask of pseudonymity and the cloak of encryption are but mitigating factors to the piercing eyes of big-data analyses.

2024-07-03 20:24:22

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Aaaaaaaaaand time. How long did it take before Nostr's Chrome was introduced? Fiatjaf had a nice try, but we all knew this was inevitable.
Will, you can claim your bazillion dollars of VC money at the nice young lady at the desk near the end of the hall. Everyone else can go and find a new protocol to LARP on for a few years.

2024-06-17 14:17:57

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To be fair, you say that on most ducttape and tierip protocol imaginable

2024-06-17 11:38:07

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One does not simply walk into Mordor

2024-06-08 17:01:05

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this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ot2FFc_Qq4

2024-06-06 21:07:10

The internet does not forget; an adage that is not precisely true for ‘the internet’ forgets many things all the time. But it serves as a warning before entry: Beware, you are entering a public domain that goes beyond space and time. You can’t control where the data ends up, and you cant control the ever shifting world it exists in. Anything you say can resurface, accessible to everyone everywhere at any moment. This is the trade-off for the fact that you can possibly be exposed to everyone, and everyone can possibly be exposed to you.

2024-06-05 11:11:07

I am doing a thing, and unfortunately I eventually will need attention for that thing.
So from now on I will post very profound things every so often such that you have a reason to follow me.
'Nostr: A meta-data convention that allows for universal context interpretation client side which removes any particular requirements on the server side.'

2024-05-09 12:55:14

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Sir, the point of decentralization is censorship resistance, hence your phrase is wrong.
Nostr, a protocol for decentralized and therefore censorship-resistant sharing of tweets*
-fix

2024-05-07 20:15:24

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its a game from 1998 that was not even demanding for computers at the time.

2024-05-07 10:13:30

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https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/meta-disables-social-media-small-business

2024-05-07 10:09:06

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Its ok, we all post screenshots by accident sometimes. We are not mad, just a bit dissapointed, but please try to do better next time ok?

2024-04-28 22:42:49

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I agree more attention ought to be paid to this. This matters way more than Bitcoin.

2024-04-26 22:20:15

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What if some other thing works for someone else and its both part of the same network🧐

2024-04-06 16:54:54

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It was at this moment, fiatjaf realized that it does not matter what he actually posts; he will get engagement regardless and therefor the effort required to uphold his self-percieved obligation to interact on a daily basis has been reduced to practically zero.
This does not relief him, on the contrary, it innitiated existential dread. Faced with all this meaninglessness, he now considers to continue the rest of his life strapped to a dripfeed of heroine while watching AI generated childrens content on youtube.
Who can blame him.

2024-03-24 16:06:49

Spring.site is worth consideration. Appart from the fact i have to add permissions for each individual app which is terrible and way to much hassle for me to bother;
It by far is the best thing to quickly demonstrate the power and added value of NOSTR as a protocol.
NOSTR is not a better Twitter, its a worse Twitter. Perhaps its a worse everything individually; but a better whole all together. Spring.site is a great way to get that point across

2024-03-21 21:14:34

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Sir, multiple tomatoes yet only a single potato?
Where is the milk btw

2024-03-10 20:03:43

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Jij hier?

2024-03-10 19:36:34

@npub180c…h6w6 heeft mij, naar Itialiaans voorbeeld, opgedragen in het Nederlands te posten. Dus, hierbij;
Waar zijn al mijn medelanders?
Het is patat.

2024-02-22 21:41:48

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There was an error generating a responce

2024-02-20 16:49:48

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Besides putting stuff out there in the world in general(in your case your art). If someone asks/shows interest, engage. But actively trying to 'convert' people is an almost complete waste of energy.
Also account for expectation management and the fact that you might be wrong/incomplete in the narrative you are conveying to others. Prime example is Roger Ver, going around telling Bitcoin is free, instant and private/anonimous. He created a whole bunch of supposed Bitcoiners with wrong expectations and dissapointment, frustration and eventually a fork as a result🤷‍♂️.
The art is more than enough Flo, it really is.

2024-02-20 12:42:35

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if something goes wrong, you can go on-chain to claim your money.
Appearently we are in a situation where the lightning software thinks it is a really good idea to spend way more in fees than what the money you are claiming is worth.
Fiatjaf made a bot that keeps track of when such sillyness happens

2024-02-18 02:29:01

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Forget the relays, its all about the notes. Once one understand notes; relays, clients, everything becomes obvious and a trivial afterthought

2024-02-17 16:15:48

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Stop trying to compensate for the fact you are a midget.

2024-02-13 11:28:40

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All the eggs are already in ICANN's basketball court anyway

2024-02-10 07:59:58

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Lord no pls, no you as well with the all caps.

2024-01-29 13:02:22

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No need to complicate these things:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0

2024-01-28 14:18:59

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Why would my ho capes be hard to weed, that does not make any sense, what does that even mean? And what does a particular type of heat transfer have to do with it?
You appear to raise more confusion than clearity on my end, i give up.

2024-01-28 14:08:51

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Narrator: And it was at this point, Fiatjaf slowely started to reconsider his anarchist beliefs.

2024-01-28 14:05:02

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I am sorry, in cant read you because of the screaming. Could you please try to write clearly.

2024-01-28 13:40:27

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Sir, it appears your capslock is activated, please see to it you remedy this situation.

2024-01-28 13:38:47

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Digital voting is a hard, if not impossible problem due to the fact that attacks have the potential to scale and thats is not the type of risk you want to have when it comes to something so foundational.
Perhaps in smaller/local elections/situations, because there are far less margins to fuck around with, maybe.
In the Netherlands we do everything on paper, and the results are basicly in the same day (with a formal result some days later after it went through all the checks).
I am not aware of the 'because not everyone has a smartphone' argument, and it is definitly not the actual reason (for there are plenty of them) not to do such a thing.

2024-01-26 23:30:04

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Are fake n gay, but i am pro script updates that would, by happenstance, allow you to do such silly things. I am not pro any drivechain specific softfork however; i dont care your silly thing wont be hyper optimized.

2024-01-26 22:06:27

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https://njump.me/npub1l8wk5a39qcnqkw9z60jmgepp8shy073cwapfl60wvrs8rgc6qltsq66m2c

2024-01-26 22:05:09

Reminder to all, that all the fancy contract things we can come up with on Bitcoin (for example Lightning) where the idea is to leverage the trustminimizing properties, will make higher value transactions cheaper, they wont make low value transactions possible; because the trust minimizing guarentees on an interaction rely on onchain transactions.
Plebs get rekt, you only have business onchain if you can afford to bribe a miner.
You will trust and you will be happy.

2024-01-17 23:38:27

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Time will tell if that is in the cards

2024-01-09 10:31:08

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Dont mind @npub180c…h6w6 , he is a drivechain supporter. We tried to seek help and support but docters say its chronic and we have to try to live with it as best as we can.

2024-01-03 05:01:55

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I dont notice anything he says, i just hear slight mumbling among streetsounds and run with it.

2023-12-23 16:34:54

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Its a downgrade in terms of style. Also you waste half my screen with bullshit i never ever use....ever. https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1988164383184050581703349077.webp
Goodluck with the app, but i am switching to something else.

2023-12-23 01:22:36

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Dont get your hopes up, his posts are as random to me as they are to anyone else.

2023-12-21 14:25:00

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You mean so they understand the exact reason why things dont work that they otherwise would expect to work?