zen / Zen is on Nostr

I'm the man who's going to be king of the pirates

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2025-03-22 02:09:24

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My degree is no more worthwhile than this person. The purpose of university and higher education is not to gatekeep high-income employment - it is to expand one's perspective and to gain a deeper understanding of the world we live in.

2025-03-21 18:23:51

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I have a degree in Computer Science, so I understand the basis of engineering far better than I understand the basis of intersectionality. I appreciate challenging conversations more than I appreciate conversations which reinforce my existing beliefs.

2025-03-21 17:41:08

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I think I'd much rather talk to her about what she studies than talk to you about mechanical engineering.

2025-02-26 19:51:18

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why this pigeon look like he carrying a Torah scroll

2025-02-26 17:31:28

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This is a good point! It makes more sense to keep the connection open until the response is complete - this leaves room for doing things like sending notifications or posting event data without creating an additional thread.

2025-02-26 14:27:30

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Interesting. I caught up on this thread because I was the person who pointed Tim towards Websockets / SSE for his ongoing projects. I also believe in only using the most basic tool for the job, but do you think that it's less complex for clients to make one query, wait until it's resolved and then make another?
I think that EOSE is a fairly useful tool to combine those two requests into one, and any half-decent implementation can send a CLOSE after that point if they aren't interested in subscribing.

2025-02-23 13:52:28

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Cool sticker - where'd you get it?

2025-02-20 16:15:06

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How do you use nostr in a way that supports social connection and local communities?

2025-02-20 15:12:20

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Hello! I run a node here: https://amboss.space/node/02c83f5d0b495919c4a6ac6f5fc3310ae894b374d3deb611cc3cbfb0c39057d7b6
I'm lacking a bit of inbound liquidity and I'm also struggling to recuperate the costs of rebalancing, opening new channels etc. Suggestions?

2025-02-20 14:25:13

I've been running a lightning node for years now, just started rebalancing to add liquidity to the network. I have collected 635 sats by routing and today I paid over 4000 sats in rebalance fees to keep my main channels from zeroing out.
I did a bit of research and I realized that I've got channels with people who have fee rates set at 1000x what I'm charging - looking at you, @nprofile…5e6s - and I'm left unsurprised that there are people who don't believe in Lightning as a workable solution.

2025-02-19 20:50:17

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If you're really just getting started, open the simplest text editor available on your computer and make a file called "index.html"
Write "<h1>Hello World</h1>" in that file and save it. You should be able to open it up with your web browser. You should be able to start building from there.
If you want to dive right into the nostr world you can add the code linked here and start scripting stuff. Nostr is a couple levels above basic HTML though.

2025-02-16 15:03:57

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Does the nAuth scheme accomplish the same patterns of Single Sign On that OAuth has established? I've never done much work to understand the latter system, it's always seemed kind of bloated to me

2025-02-14 00:16:22

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What do you do with dried asparagus? It sounds like it would be good in a soup

2025-02-09 21:38:17

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æthernet vibes

2025-02-09 18:52:39

Currently planning my 5th major revision to SOLAR. It can be really frustrating to go through this process time and again before I'm at the stage where I can start getting other people involved, but once there's multiple people standing on the foundation it gets a lot more difficult to make these sort of sweeping changes - even when it's for the best.
My current target is finding a consistent way to address nostr notes with a human readable path so that they can be stored in the correct place on a filesystem. I will be focusing mostly on addressable events, converting the <kind>:<pubkey>:<#d> into <kind_name>/<username>/<#d>/ - notes with no d tag can use the ID instead.

2025-02-07 14:23:19

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I think that the nostr community is still missing a sense of data ownership. Like yes, it's cool that everything is cryptographically signed, but at the end of the day if people aren't holding onto their own data it still leaves the door open for relays to become centralized and for people to lose sight of the wider network.

2025-02-06 02:47:10

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Did you manage to roll down the windows and let the wind blow back your hair while driving on an open road in the countryside? It's pretty much the only way to do it