vinney

Building a dark forest of peer-to-peer, private Operating Functions

cofounder, https://github.com/operating-function/pallas

Public Key

npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl

NIP-05 Address

vcavallo@vinneycavallo.com

NIP-57 Address

vinney@minibits.cash

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsza748zkamgmw4he4hm2xhwqpxd5gkwju38wqh3twmtshx8kv8xvgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakq9yypf4

Publishing to

nostr.wine

nos.lol

relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl

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2024-11-03 21:49:09

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A bicycle for the computer.
That's the new thing

2024-11-03 01:21:52

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Lol they actually call it "gatekeeper"? You know it's evil when they stop hiding

2024-10-27 13:58:52

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Is the whole thing Dave Smith or is that just the cover image?

2024-10-26 01:13:23

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And I thought "how could this guy have both of these thoughts at the same time?! This one here is the response to his other one!"

2024-10-26 01:12:43

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Oh man I'm a dummy sorry. I was temporarily using voyage, which makes usernames a little harder to notice.
I thought I was replying to this note:
#nevent1q…8zd4

2024-10-17 00:06:36

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Ladies and gentlemen, the winning answer!
Stack Duo is my new favorite app

2024-10-15 18:52:39

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Yea I started clicking through the onramper thing in Cake and was like, "hang on a minute..." And came here

2024-10-15 16:51:33

What's the best place to buy XMR if you're in the US? I'm okay with buying from an exchange and immediately moving to self-custody. #XMR #Monero

2024-10-13 14:03:53

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Where else are you leaving them? Forums and group chats and stuff?

2024-10-13 14:02:59

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What do you mean?

2024-10-13 03:16:07

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What's wrong with calcium?

2024-10-13 03:14:45

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I don't mind "anti-keto". I cycle in and out as needed. I'm not dogmatic about it

2024-10-12 23:29:08

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Describing essentially what I do. Strongly carb-restricted "paleo" ish + dairy. Basically just buy whole food ingredients (vegetables, fruit, meat, fish) and combine them myself (except for the dairy products).
It's the healthiest I've ever been.

2024-10-11 04:45:51

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I can seriously just buy contact lenses without a prescription? What brand lenses? Who runs this?! I'm flabbergasted

2024-10-10 12:08:29

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Yea this one got me too.
Is it for real?

2024-10-08 04:02:50

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When people ask about your politics and you tell them "I believe all human interactions should be entirely voluntary" their heads really explode even though this is clearly unobjectionable and quite simple

2024-10-08 04:00:45

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Careful...
https://i.nostr.build/kaQL01UEl0t4PuMp.jpg

2024-10-07 19:51:30

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Are you making these?

2024-10-07 19:41:41

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I watched this whole thing and I have no idea

2024-10-07 12:20:56

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Interesting that you're designing for this, because we're building an entire computing paradigm meant to facilitate this: https://github.com/operating-function/pallas
We should talk 😉

2024-10-07 11:19:54

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Community software. micro-apps that are unique to a network/fandom and provide specific function or experience that only the network understands.

2024-10-07 00:25:52

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I don't know a ton about speed reading, but one tip I had heard was you slowly count to 10 over and over again (just barely whispered) as you're reading the words. It's hard at first, but you kind of get used to it. Once you can get the meaning of the words just by looking at them (rather than "saying them in your head" - which is impossible while youre counting aloud), you can scan them faster and faster.
The upper bound for how fast you can scan your eyes over words is much higher than the speed at which you can "say them".

2024-10-06 18:38:07

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One of the main techniques of speed reading is NOT subvocalizing the words in your head. Basically just going to pure information without the stopover in virtualized speech.
Point being: might not be a problem for reading (or may even be beneficial!)

2024-10-05 15:38:03

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You can probably understand this pretty well without having to learn any actual programming.
How familiar are you with cryptography and cryptographic signatures? ("Not at all" is an acceptable answer)

2024-10-05 14:55:10

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Cool as hell no matter the amount.
Btw the "redeem" button in Amethyst didn't work, but I was able to copy and paste it into Minibits. Incredible!

2024-10-05 14:54:22

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https://i.nostr.build/EttaMdqNr9DokBg8.jpg

2024-10-05 14:53:12

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YOINK!

2024-10-04 20:02:03

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Unless you answer exactly the same (or do some sort of fuzzing on creating many valid hashes to begin with) - like including punctuation and upper/lowercase - the hashes won't match.
But I like the idea and there's something there

2024-10-04 19:48:39

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Always a good sign. Definitely doesnt mean we're in immanent CME danger

2024-10-04 19:44:46

Wait a second... This "Mr Obnoxious" show that I'm finally getting around to listing to - this is Peter McCormack?!

2024-10-04 11:07:17

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And math

2024-10-04 00:40:05

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👋
Control, posterity, reliability, fun, training.
(I'm assuming you're talking about Nostr relays. But I also publish other stuff to other servers of mine so I guess it works either way)

2024-10-03 11:31:26

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That's just one layer

2024-10-03 11:31:02

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"is you"

2024-10-03 11:25:51

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Fake thing that "exists" purely by decree and only in the intangible fantasy realm and if you refuse to believe in it and act in accordance, the people who maintain that the thing exists will get mad at you (and perhaps arrest or kill you).

2024-10-03 02:31:33

God is the supreme statist fantasy - a nanny being more powerful than the most obscene one world government.
God is the ultimate incarnation of pure fiat.
Most "freedom influencers" are too scared to publicly agree due of audience capture.
Show me a "theist anarchist" and I'll show you someone who doesn't understand what the "arch" in an-arch means.

2024-10-03 02:26:28

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I mean the much simpler version: there is no god (person or otherwise)

2024-10-02 21:31:05

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Yea I'd happily elaborate on my thoughts sometime / re-state in terms that are more familiar to you!

2024-10-02 18:14:09

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I'm okay with Firefox for this! Didn't know Firefox on mobile allowed extensions... I'm suspicious. I'll investigate

2024-10-02 16:46:36

@nprofile…cn9q @nprofile…al0v I want to login to straylight.cafe on my phone but the browser doesn't integrate with #amber and I don't want to paste my nsec in there. Any other ideas?

2024-10-02 16:34:20

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I was comparing these exact two products this morning. Was leaning towards Power blocks, mostly because of price (and less rolling around). Why do you prefer them?

2024-10-02 15:08:49

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I mean on the video. Where can I watch the rest?

2024-10-02 14:04:17

https://straylight.cafe/users/arkinox@team.fanfares.io/statuses/674d87bba225ae1646f620cf1f2f21dbc98cb867ea0b81ff9b7ab095e4ee0185
Exactly
> There is no such thing as global state in reality. Therefore none is required in cyberspace. If there is a conflict of local state between relays, they can exist in parallel until they become aware of each other at which point POW reconciles the dispute.

2024-10-02 11:54:03

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Trust + Right to Exit can take you very far for quite cheap ("cheap" as far as infrastructure investment goes at least)

2024-10-02 11:52:30

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I do both

2024-10-02 11:37:50

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Hello..

2024-10-02 11:35:03

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What video series is it?

2024-10-02 11:34:56

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What's the source?

2024-10-02 11:09:34

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A good portion of my life is built on top of my Obsidian markdown vault. The best part of it is that it's just markdown files in a folder.
I'll definitely be trying comet!

2024-10-02 11:05:22

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"unified" is optional in my view. At least for namespaces. I think there is a lot of value in subnets being able to define their own names - like DNS, for instance. That should be local to a subnet.
Nothing stopping multiple subnets from all using the same DNS provider, which would make it _something like_ global, but another federation of subnets could have their own DNS.

2024-10-02 11:02:39

@nprofile…h5zr I'm trying to find the answer to this in docs but haven't been able to for some reason: do price-stable cashu tokens get their "stability" via Stable Channels on Lightning? Something else?

2024-10-02 10:56:48

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Where the heck did this come from?!

2024-10-02 02:47:38

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Basically agree with most everything you've said here.
Blockchains are great for *global* double-spend. And the classes of concern where double spend are relevant are money and other forms of asset ownership. Bitcoin as money and [ethereum or whatever else] as "the other, arbitrarily complicayed complicated things you could own" makes sense to me.
But I also think thst most "ownership" should be in-network in voluntary patchwork subnets, not "global" - so a lot of that also doesn't need blockchains.

2024-10-02 01:32:45

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thanks! gonna have to be a project for another day I suppose. I'd ike to get a whole Lightning setup going but I have to devote a good chunk of time and energy to understanding all the details better.

2024-10-02 01:31:03

Just added some PoW in Gossip. feels good

2024-10-02 01:29:10

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right on. so then: is there a basic lightning backend you'd recommend? And am I going to have to (finally) learn about opening channels and all that...?

2024-10-02 01:28:06

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hah yea same here

2024-10-02 01:25:15

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Ah you have to have a lightning backend running also. hrm.

2024-10-02 01:20:01

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I do. Thanks!

2024-10-02 01:19:48

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As my Umbrel gets ever closer to full I get more and more anxious about the fact that I can't just connect and external drive to the pi... :(

2024-10-02 01:16:04

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Thanks!
https://i.nostr.build/30CAN99S9AO1d8As.jpg

2024-10-02 01:11:33

What's up with #Amethyst being very strange with auto-filling @ names?

2024-10-02 01:10:51

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Screwed my tag up @nprofile…l3vp
#minibits

2024-10-02 01:09:33

The new @minibits update is excellent!
Lots of nice UI polish.

2024-10-02 01:00:24

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Most crypto people are not anti-bitcoin, but so many bitcoiners are anti-crypto.
It's okay to love Bitcoin and think it's the only sound money we have discovered while also appreciating that digital assets on a blockchain have interesting use-cases (NFTs for instance)

2024-10-01 20:15:38

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No but like what's going on

2024-10-01 20:11:27

What's up with the port closures?

2024-10-01 18:45:46

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...?

2024-09-30 20:09:49

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@nprofile…9g5j tell them about how bacon doesn't make you fat

2024-09-30 19:48:20

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Not accepting Bitcoin?! Pfft that station is NGMI

2024-09-30 19:42:37

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I mean, if everyone can run their own relay with their own (non-consensus) version of the space, it's closer to infinite.

2024-09-30 17:11:28

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Incredible! My own little slice of infinite cyberspace 🤗

2024-09-30 13:25:25

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When I'm flying around and dropping shards in onosendai.tech, what is happening on Nostr? What is the integration?
Should I expect to see other npubs in realtime in cyberspace?

2024-09-30 12:52:42

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The modern media ecosystem makes it even easier for propagandists. It's more common to see the most recent comments from someone, divorced from any historical track record - which can make them seem to be more accurate and consistent than they truly are.
How many podcasters and sensationalist bloggers make a living by repeating this pattern:
- "things are bad right now! [Description of what is bad]. Here's what will happen next! [This prediction winds up being wrong]"
- time passes... Different bad things happen... "See I told you things would be bad. [repeat above with different topics]"
I don't think Dugin is entirely wrong about the multipolar world analysis, but once people get into prediction territory I tend to get off the ride (and doubly-fast if they start getting into eschatology).

2024-09-30 12:43:11

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✅✅

2024-09-28 12:16:29

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Universal rather than neutral. This is a very good point.

2024-09-28 03:45:11

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Thefuck is this animal?

2024-09-27 16:19:24

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They'll find their way, and the journey will be worth it.
..or they'll stay on beginner island and they'll be happy there. Also fine.

2024-09-27 14:41:12

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that makes me want to die

2024-09-27 11:41:34

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Farcaster is shitcoinery.
Bluesky is progressivism.
(My) Nostr network is anarchists, bitcoiners, extreme individualists and autodidacts.

2024-09-27 11:38:40

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150 years?

2024-09-27 11:31:23

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How long are you given for this assignment?

2024-09-27 11:25:54

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Nice!!

2024-09-26 21:05:25

Implementing an HTTP/1.0 server is fun and everyone should try it sometime.

2024-09-26 13:58:21

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Yea. And don't paste the new one into clients or anywhere else.

2024-09-26 02:47:24

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What clients you're using and where to install them.
Which relay implementations you're referring to (and links to their source).
Any relay configurations that allow any of the aforementioned affordances.
Etc...
Basically what you would do if you had to get back to this setup from a clean slate.

2024-09-25 20:54:14

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Writing up specific details in a long post would probably earn you a good chunk of sats.

2024-09-25 20:52:44

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👀 #nevent1q…gv2q

2024-09-25 20:51:58

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Aw sorry I wasn't making fun of your writing. It's totally common, idiomatic English to ask "can I..." to mean what you meant.
I was sort of joking.
npub.pro basically does this.
There are many ways to do it; would depend a lot on how your site is built. How is your site built?

2024-09-25 16:38:36

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You asking for permission or instructions? 😉

2024-09-25 10:27:30

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Agreed.

2024-09-25 02:51:39

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Shopstr sorta doesn't work... I want to buy books

2024-09-25 02:49:51

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Ah, just found it. Awesome

2024-09-25 02:49:20

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YES!! where can I buy them?

2024-09-25 02:48:22

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If I wake up in the middle of one, yes. And I'm always impressed by their detail and complexity.
If I don't wake up in the middle of one, not usually. it's like I forget to remember lol

2024-09-24 21:52:14

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Because it is!

2024-09-24 21:52:02

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Oh duh thanks

2024-09-24 18:14:24

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Maybe I'm retarded, but is this missing a link to the podcast?

2024-09-24 16:36:18

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2024-09-24 14:32:49

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YES! be afraid!
Nostr is better than Twitter, etc. but it's still a dangerous black hole for attention 😉
Guard that attention like the precious thing it is.