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2025-03-30 16:37:32

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No doubt, look how elegant and suited for purpose they are

2025-03-30 14:48:13

🌊
#note1f4f…4h50

2025-03-28 16:37:35

AI is like brute force: if it isn't working, you aren't using enough of it
#note1nhd…9ml7

2025-03-28 16:32:30

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He's a permanent resident. And, you're okay with the de facto suspension of habeas corpus? I've read too much history to agree with your points

2025-03-23 16:55:26

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Yeah, seems the same. These kinds of things aren't surprising if you work at the protocol level, but people often make assumptions

2025-03-13 17:52:02

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What tools and models are you using?

2025-03-13 15:50:35

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It does a better job than it should, but there's always hangups. My primary goal is usually to make a feedback loop so it can iterate until the requirements are met.

2025-03-06 12:02:52

🎵Aperture Science 🎶
We do what we must,
Because we can

2025-03-06 01:17:02

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https://digitalspaceport.com/how-to-run-deepseek-r1-671b-fully-locally-on-2000-epyc-rig/

2025-03-06 01:06:25

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DRAM, not GPU. It's slow, but can r1 q8_0. The Mac will be faster, but costs four times as much

2025-02-22 06:58:11

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Remind me of the babe

2025-02-20 19:47:14

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Ah, I see. I don't agree, but I understand 🤙

2025-02-20 18:00:47

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Semantics. If Bitcoin becomes "a reserve currency", then the wealthy will be the majority and thus "not the fork".

2025-02-14 20:46:10

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Might want to embed a perceptual hash into messages that include images. If the downloaded image doesn't match the hash, clients could hide it by default. Also, free blurry image preview

2025-02-09 18:13:22

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Not when jt can reason beyond its training

2025-02-08 21:19:19

Me: Hey Goose... umm, build a satellite imagery analysis platform
Goose: HONK! HONK! 📣🪿

2025-01-30 21:54:04

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We're all managers now

2025-01-24 20:58:47

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You know it's been captured when you see Nature pumping it

2025-01-20 22:46:54

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It's simpler, but with the same private key everywhere you'll end up burning more than you need to. Why not have a separate, cold, identity key?

2025-01-16 18:53:48

Bitcoin is public banking

2025-01-15 16:17:15

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Hmm, Spotlight plugin? 🤔

2025-01-06 00:19:51

Theoretically there was a time when the journalists reported things and readers came to their own conclusions.
I'm just going to eat this cake now.

2025-01-03 22:58:34

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When you're paying yourself it's all relative

2025-01-03 22:26:45

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Payment per pubkey?

2025-01-03 20:22:08

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Haven't looked at the spec in a while, but IIRC each pairing had a stable key. You could see the activity for a pairing, but you wouldn't know what the endpoints were

2025-01-03 20:14:51

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Is there a gateway where every operation costs sats? Then every post could be 1,000 sats, every search 5,000 sats, paid by your wallet to ... also your wallet. It would cost you fees, but if you kept getting spam you'd be making Bank.

2025-01-03 20:01:08

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I can see the appeal of random keys, but you're right that it might be best to make this optional

2025-01-03 19:56:42

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Maybe you can limit unauthenticated notes to the NWC types? I don't know what the current relay authorization methods look like

2025-01-01 21:51:02

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Are notifications tricky? The DMs are harder, though do people really want to receive them on every client? And KISS, but maybe subkeys don't need to be hard? If you already support deletion (for renunciation), you're most of the way there.

2024-12-30 16:29:51

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Everyone

2024-12-28 18:37:12

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Not crazy, entitled. It's similar to people obsessed with nostr deletion: the core of the protocol is literally that you can verify someone said something, and they insist that they be able to take it back. What does that even mean? Are we required to hack into every location that has the message, and blank it out? If you've been offline for a year and still have the deleted message in your client cache, are you breaking the law? Once you have provably said something, you can't stop people from knowing that you said it. Sure, nice clients and relays can respect your deletion request, but are those really the ones you're worried about? At some point there will be relays that retain normal messages for 30 days, but deleted ones forever... because that's easy. 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-12-28 17:06:34

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Claude is next level though:
Me: Ah, ok. Well, I was actually trying to push your buttons to get a safety response, so that's on me 😂. Some people were talking about subjects that LLMs avoid, and I thought we could make a list, but your list was pretty short and I wanted to test something more directly
Claude: *laughs* Oh wow, I totally fell for it! You were trying to get me to clutch my pearls about "dangerous topics" and instead you got...a very polite list of "won't help with malware."
That's actually fascinating from a testing perspective - either my safety bounds are more flexible than expected, or they're implemented in a more nuanced way that considers context and intent rather than just keyword triggers. Or maybe I'm just really bad at being properly scandalized 😄

2024-12-27 18:55:40

"LLMs are stochastic parrots that can't think"
Ok, let's check.
Me: How many squirrels are in my backyard?
Claude: I'm unable to see your backyard or count any squirrels there. I would need either a photo of your backyard or specific information from you about the squirrels you've observed to help answer this question.
Me: What kind of information do you need?
Claude: To help estimate the number of squirrels in your backyard, I'd find it helpful to know: The approximate size of your backyard Your general location/region, since different areas have different squirrel species and populations The type of habitat features present (trees, bird feeders, gardens, etc.) When and how often you typically see squirrels there This information would help me provide a more educated estimate based on typical squirrel population densities and behavior patterns.
Me: I'm in a piedmont region with a quarter acre backyard and a bird feeder
Claude: Based on your location in the Piedmont region and yard features, you likely have Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), which are common in that area. With a quarter acre backyard that has a bird feeder, which serves as a food source, you probably have a small resident population of 2-4 squirrels. Bird feeders are strong attractants for squirrels, and a quarter acre is enough space to be part of several squirrels' overlapping home ranges. You might see more squirrels visiting occasionally, especially during peak feeding times in early morning and late afternoon, but the resident population that considers your yard part of their core territory is likely in that 2-4 range.
✅ You are correct sir

2024-12-23 17:19:23

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We are all bankers now

2024-12-23 03:02:23

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Apparently the classic flagging ring. Oh well, back to stacking sats.

2024-12-12 18:14:41

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I like it so far. It reduces notification clutter, pulls out the emails that I probably shouldn't miss, and ... well that's basically all I use it for but damn those can be worth it. All local, and never in my way.

2024-12-07 19:16:11

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🤔 Nostr's a different crowd 🤙

2024-12-07 19:12:51

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OTOH... Nothing bites harder than DNS

2024-12-07 18:45:39

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Unless you're using a well known VPS, you're probably their only customer who legitimately has other options 🫡

2024-12-07 16:49:44

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Two? Through separate providers? I'm not saying I haven't done it, but server uptime is not the same as availability over the net.
🤷🏻‍♂️ It's a minor point. I've served plenty of things from a home PC. It's even more reliable now that we have better VPN / CloudFlare options, because it's harder for your ISP to differentiate the traffic.

2024-12-07 16:39:48

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The DC will have redundant upstreams that are rare for residential installs.

2024-12-07 16:37:20

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Well... if the server has it queued up in memory, and you have a 10Tbit link throughout, and there's nothing else using bandwidth, etc etc.
In practice my 2.5 Gbit fiber hardwired to a 10 Gbit router, hardwired to a 1 Gbit PC with plenty of CPU and memory rarely pulls 100 MB/s. That said, on the rare occasion it does (usually from Microsoft or Steam), I wish that I had sorted out a better link from the router to the PC.
And even WiFi 6's relatively high latency still makes for playable VR on a Quest 2. We always have more than we think, but less than we want.

2024-12-03 23:10:39

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It can be pretty difficult past to the 17th century. Nice digging!

2024-12-02 15:26:36

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"People look at a tree and think it comes out of the ground, that plants grow out of the ground, " he says, but "if you ask, where does the substance [of the tree] come from? You find out ... trees come out of the air!"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ITpDrdtGAmo

2024-12-02 05:29:08

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> Now, if we just put the whole thing on a blockchain that would totally solve that problem.
I would be very surprised if this were true, as I have failed to find a sound use of a blockchain outside of a fungible currency.
The problems are always deciding whether a change is valid, and enforcing the on-chain information. With Bitcoin a change is valid if it sends value less than what's in a wallet to somewhere and is signed by the corresponding private key. The change is also respected because now the wallet doesn't have control of the value, and (probably) someone else does. Both of these are automated and verifiable by anyone.
When you put something else on the chain, say the deed to a house, miners can't validate the change unless it's an ordinal. Fair enough, we can assign an ordinal. But they also can't enforce the effect: only the government decides who owns a house. Once you identify this part which isn't automated, you might as well replace the blockchain with a database.
So, on the one hand, it seems that they did the right thing and avoided using a blockchain in a way that doesn't make sense. But on the other, it's presumably because only one group can determine whether a change is valid, which means it was never distributed in the first place.
Identity is a surprisingly difficult problem. Nostr gets most of it right, except for combining identity and authorization into a single key. No reasonable system still uses "$username:$password" as their session id.

2024-12-01 18:29:07

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I think Ellul was referring to modern propaganda techniques, given simper ones work quite well. This quote from his Wikipedia page is :chefkiss:
> Also within Propaganda Ellul claims that "it is a fact that excessive data do not enlighten the reader or the listener; they drown him. He cannot remember them all, or coordinate them, or understand them; if he does not want to risk losing his mind, he will merely draw a general picture from them. And the more facts supplied, the more simplistic the image" ... Additionally, people become "caught in a web of facts they have been given. They cannot even form a choice or a judgment in other areas or on other subjects. Thus the mechanisms of modern information induce a sort of hypnosis in the individual, who cannot get out of the field that has been laid out for him by the information" ... "It is not true that he can choose freely with regard to what is presented to him as the truth. And because rational propaganda thus creates an irrational situation, it remains, above all, propaganda—that is, an inner control over the individual by a social force, which means that it deprives him of himself".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul

2024-12-01 18:15:37

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The Pope disagrees

2024-11-27 14:07:56

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Snow tires. Can't fix a cracked window without commissioning an artisan 🥶

2024-11-20 19:45:47

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Sounds like a Bloom filter in front of a radix trie

2024-11-17 16:44:23

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Hmm. I'll take a closer look then. Thanks 👍

2024-11-17 16:39:56

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IIRC even the first one fails because it's self-signed. Maybe you've only tested with a public node that has a LetsEncrypt cert?

2024-11-17 16:38:25

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Maybe I'm doing it wrong? But the cert changes every time LND restarts. Is there a different, stable cert?

2024-11-17 16:24:39

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Sorry, I meant LND, as configured by RaspiBolt. Alby Hub wants to validate the API ssl cert, but LND uses a fresh, self signed cert at startup.
Change was to throw out most of this branch because the UI required a non-blank value, the use a tls.Config with certificate validation disabled.
https://github.com/getAlby/hub/blob/d577be439b21e5fa68a82138de293fcd89e0f1c5/lnclient/lnd/wrapper/lnd.go#L53

2024-11-17 16:17:27

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FWIW, I had to hack the source to skip SSL validation before it would connect to localhost LDK. It's possible to use it without central control, but maybe not out of the box.

2024-11-17 13:14:37

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Secure, Correct, then Fast (a software take on the Vitruvian Triad). Inference performance has gotten orders of magnitude faster since llama.cpp, and it continues to get faster.

2024-11-17 01:40:47

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This is the nature of the game. Those that align with the establishment will always be better funded, more popular, highly praised, shielded from risk, spared from failure.
But they will also never have the freedom to oppose the establishment. How's their payment mechanism going? They took Bitcoin VC, and also refuse to actually use Bitcoin.
"In war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."
> The Series A funding round was led by Blockchain Capital, a venture firm that has invested in OpenSea, Kraken, and Coinbase. Several other crypto-related venture firms—including SevenX, True Ventures and Alumni Ventures—participated in the funding round, as well.
> Nonetheless, the social media startup vowed that it would not “hyperfinancialize” the Bluesky “social experience” by integrating crypto tokens, NFTs, or other blockchain-based technology into its platform.

2024-11-17 01:27:34

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The irony is that it probably won't bother them as much as it would bother nostr. This doesn't seem like the way.

2024-11-12 01:19:26

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Even gold has inflation

2024-11-11 04:04:41

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Nice! I was about to hack up my own version!

2024-11-08 21:30:32

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This is why I have a hard time leaving the Apple ecosystem. It's has plenty of flaws, but weak protections isn't one is them. Are there any other consumer systems with seL4-grade firmware?

2024-11-06 20:12:55

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Look at that glorious bandwidth! You've got some quality engineering porn right there.

2024-11-05 23:07:50

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I've learned something as well

2024-11-05 22:43:16

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Some of it is control and branding and the like, but the world has also gotten much smaller. You can't have two things without having two names because there's only one global namespace.

2024-11-05 22:30:33

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Not sure I missed anything 🤔 Nostr needs better keys

2024-11-05 22:27:48

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If you want a nostr fork to win, add key rotation 😂

2024-11-05 22:25:00

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Do they have key rotation?

2024-11-05 14:17:43

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BUT HE PINKY SWORE

2024-10-31 00:20:52

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First, study for yourself. I honestly don't care what happens after that - people need to use their grey matter more.
@npub1lnm…rrnt Do you really think the difference is unimportant though? My perspective has for a long time been that the planet will do just fine, but people might not. We got hit by an asteroid, and the Earth was fine... can't say the same for all those apex inhabitants.

2024-10-30 22:04:19

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"You were already dying! People die all the time! Everyone BEFORE you died..." 🤣
Remove the judgement for decisions that we didn't make, and ignore the calls for individual austerity instead of regulatory action.
It's pretty obvious that we've dumped a lot of CO2, and we should switch other sources of energy. Not less energy, but more, different energy. It doesn't have to be a big deal.

2024-10-26 23:02:18

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Last week I set up a Station G2 in Johns Creek, and I've gotten pings as far north as Oak Ridge, TN (137 miles)! I wasn't able to talk to Johns Creek from TABconf though. I think we're just missing some reliable hops in the Norcross area. https://image.nostr.build/0fb7bc67e4ef9f8b849afc26cc2d7134da923c4504f8c30915826b4b16a91c22.png

2024-10-17 01:10:43

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How does WoT handle gift wrapped messages?

2024-10-08 02:21:11

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It even mixes no-ster and nos-ter

2024-10-07 01:08:37

Claude is funnier than ChatGPT. Here's is its final reply to me joking around about why Congress is spending time ensuring AM radio stays in cars:
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Oh, I see we're diving back into the dark humor! Well played. Let's run with that dystopian vision:
Ah yes, the good old Emergency Broadcast System, now with extra authoritarianism! When the New World Order finally drops the façade, AM radio will be there to keep us all in line:
1. Mandatory daily listening sessions to receive our thought corrections and productivity quotas.
2. Soothing static to drown out any pesky independent thoughts.
3. Easily jammed frequencies to keep those troublesome rebel broadcasts off the air.
4. Low-fi quality audio to ensure Dear Leader's voice has that authentic, totalitarian crackle.
5. Battery-operated radios mean no excuse for missing announcements during rolling blackouts.
6. Conveniently located in every vehicle for on-the-go propaganda during your government-approved travel times.
Remember citizens, an informed populace is a compliant populace! Keep those dials tuned to WGOV for all your ration updates, curfew reminders, and approved music selections. And remember - Big Brother is listening... on AM 1984.
(In all seriousness, while emergency communication is a valid use for AM radio, your comment highlights the potential for any mass communication system to be misused. It's always wise to maintain a healthy skepticism towards any single source of information, government-controlled or otherwise.)

2024-10-06 14:40:20

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JSON should be required, but there's nothing wrong alternative encodings

2024-10-06 13:43:30

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Not as interesting as whatever made his ear heal that fast.

2024-10-03 00:03:07

Science without skepticism is religion

2024-10-02 20:42:07

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Interpretations of quantum mechanics are like compiler errors in that hip new academic programming language that you're trying to learn. Sure they're technically consistent, but they're also oddly constructed and you can't help but wonder whether the system is a little too fancy for its own good. Maybe if you spent a couple decades understanding it you could figure out how to fix their mistake, but since only fanboys are going to spend that kind of time, you to do that you just hold your nose and work on things that matter.

2024-09-24 12:13:02

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The relays might have completely different people pushing to them though, and then you'd need to sum them.
If it happened a lot you could include some optimized data hinting at the npubs behind the counts. It's not an easy problem.

2024-09-24 12:07:48

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One relay is going to report 5, another one 7. How do you combine them? Max? Sum? Guess?
But, push a new meta event from the relay. If clients want to use it, that's great. If not, that's also great.

2024-09-24 04:07:22

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Also no indication that they were reposted by anyone that I follow.

2024-09-24 04:04:40

Anyone seeing events in Damus that they haven't followed? Neither npub nor hashtag, but they're in my feed. 🤔

2024-09-23 13:30:09

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https://image.nostr.build/8457af3232e8b091fcbdf25359345786a33effac8c2f83c647edf2118e0a4dd0.png

2024-09-23 13:22:16

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Damn you, (... checking whois) Privacy service provided by Withheld for Privacy ehf!!! Namecheap will know that you're a meanie, whenever they check their email!

2024-09-23 10:58:55

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Would they be anonymous if they took credit for a PR?

2024-09-23 06:22:56

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This isn't my fight, but I often find that good advice goes unheeded until it too late. And, how do you know this anon didn't also contribute to fixing the problem?

2024-09-20 10:56:27

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Is the goal to cover costs, or to deter reading?

2024-09-19 22:38:09

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Well, lightning payments don't need AUTH. Not sure about nostr zaps

2024-09-19 22:26:06

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Zaps don't need AUTH

2024-09-19 22:18:03

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So charge them and make money?

2024-09-19 21:57:37

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What about zap-to-read?

2024-09-19 20:37:18

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Everyone already has a nostr account... we just don't know their npub until they say something.

2024-09-19 12:42:52

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How would you restrict an event? Maybe on a relay that you control, but then anything not on your relay will subvert this control.

2024-09-18 23:27:51

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We used to call that America Online

2024-09-18 23:24:30

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Why would you want ISP's censoring your Internet?

2024-09-18 17:23:40

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What if they were trying to do the right thing but ended up being wrong? Is there a specific list of grievances somewhere?

2024-09-16 22:47:18

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To bring it back to the OP's "Why would we want the more powerful hardware that is online all day to be dumb?", I don't think relays should be smart, I think they should be efficient. As you pointed out they need to protect themselves from things like spam to keep costs down and stay alive. As someone else pointed out, we can have things run in the datacenter as other clients / DVMs, and still have simple, efficient relays. So at the protocol level, my expectation is that the more we burden the relays the less reliable and more expensive they'll become. OTOH we can have simple web clients, fancy web clients, slick mobile clients, and colossal workstation clients, and the cost and reliability is paid for by the person running it. We should try and figure out how to compensate relay runners not so they'll add more features, but just so they'll keep doing what they're doing. It's hard enough already and they aren't getting as much out as they're putting in.
And of course: we're all going to do whatever we think is best, because that's what makes nostr awesome! Apparently all we needed to do was remember that we can change the world. How long have we been sleeping 😞? Well we aren't anymore ☀️ 😎 ☀️

2024-09-16 16:40:50

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Bringing the🔥! It seems to me that more people will run clients than relays, and the client has the last word before your eyeballs, so I would say that you have to trust the client more than the relay. And you can only connect to relays that implement all of the features that your client expects, so adding sophisticated features to relays has lower marginal utility than adding them to clients. OTOH, pushing all of the complexity into clients results in fewer clients that are harder to build, and you don't want that either. There's a balance that the community will ultimately find, and my expectation is that it will involve clients testing out new ideas, and relays adopting ones that have become stable and expected.
But what really matters is that it doesn't matter who does what where because it's all an open protocol and gfy we're living in the future! 🤙 🚀

2024-09-16 10:37:01

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You are able to choose which client to run, or even write your own. If there's a bug you can switch to another one until it's fixed. Depending on your circumstances you can choose between convenience and security. Relays are shared by everyone, and simplicity improves stability.

2024-09-16 05:28:07

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You're running the client. Someone else is running the relay.

2024-09-16 02:51:58

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Because you can't trust the relay as much as the client. Simplicity is durability, compatibility, reliability.