mbrochh
Martin

https://mbrochh.io

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mbrochh@mbrochh.io

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2024-10-26 14:19:48

This doctor is incredible:
https://youtu.be/ZJkkyKrS-mA?si=5FsB7FN8MXw8s3tH
This might be the most important health related podcast I have ever watched (also, the interviewer is super pleasant and asks really good questions).

2024-10-14 10:59:17

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how would the spooks be able to stop people building better UX for PGP?

2024-10-14 05:23:22

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That's what PGP said since forever but the UX never happened...

2024-10-06 13:38:17

I had no idea that salmon farming is such a disgusting and destructive business:
https://youtu.be/Mfp-OAaIwdc

2024-10-04 23:51:12

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How will they exchange it back into local currency in order to buy anything that they urgently need?

2024-10-04 23:48:59

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I'm surprised that Wordpress is that big of a company.

2024-10-04 23:44:53

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Are you trolling or do you have zero self awareness? Your entire persona is built around stirring up drama.

2024-10-04 09:10:17

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I don't know any professional web developer who uses a WYSIWIG editor. Writing proper HTML and CSS is the norm.

2024-10-03 09:51:00

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Looks incredible. Everytime I see pics like this I just want to leave Singapore for good.

2024-10-02 02:27:30

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Did they gain it back in muscle mass?
Or because they stopped doing keto?
If you keep doing keto and don't cheat all the time (that's what most people do, though), you will stay lean and healthy as hell.

2024-10-01 18:18:48

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Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like your own opinion, man.
https://youtu.be/gU2ZgaQ_H-Y?si=lobB-QMGxZqbUiLh
;)

2024-10-01 14:39:05

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I'm not seeing it in my Umbrel app store. Am I missing something?

2024-09-28 08:10:15

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Very cool. 2nd degree should be a good start. NIP05 should be even better, provided that someone maintains a good blacklist for domains that are used by spammers. (and that opens up the problem that legitimate people might get into that blacklist and then need to fight their way out, ugh...)

2024-09-27 18:40:08

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Amazing! But isn't one of the main powers of social media that your post goes viral and lots of people who are NOT in your social graph will reply to you and thus you can tap into the wisdom of the crowd?
Most people that I follow don't follow me back, so that would mean when I post something I would barely ever see any replies to my posts.

2024-09-27 12:33:43

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any tricks for finding signal? just following good people and reading your timeline or do you have better tools?

2024-09-27 02:48:42

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Doesn't Signal have mostly the same functionality as Telegram? Except for groups where only the admin can post which are more like Newsletter subscriptions, both apps have 1-to-1 and group chats, no? Telegram just has a slicker interface, bots, and lots and lots of useless nonsense with stickers and stuff.

2024-09-26 07:36:38

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ie, there are 2056 cities in Germany, so this would be like each city has now 50 people jobless. 🤷‍♂️
They will just find other jobs?

2024-09-26 07:34:39

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In a country of 80 million, are 90k jobs significant though?

2024-09-25 10:44:25

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...after reading your post and this thread, I now get it, of course.

2024-09-25 10:39:17

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Bring your own bank?

2024-09-25 05:28:07

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Is it eating up that amount of money in hardware and electricity cost and time spent on maintenance (which has value, too), though?

2024-09-19 14:06:49

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Bisq, or Robosats.

2024-09-19 14:06:07

Not a fan of the constant penis jokes, but this Journey To The West summary is really quite awesome:
https://youtu.be/R-Rp7prtleA?si=i_fQFkSK5XM1HNWF
#gaming #BlackMythWukong #JourneyToTheWest #Youtube

2024-09-17 12:26:24

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And of course that Blue Zones documentary on Netflix is 7DA propaganda... who would have thought that it's just another house of cards of lies... shocking.

2024-09-17 08:38:27

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I don't think getting followers is an issue AT ALL.
If the protocol made it impossible to see how many followers I have, I'd still prefer Nostr over Twitter or any other ego-centric bullshit network.
I get more engagement here with 60 followers than I got with 3000 followers on Twitter. Daily. Without a shred of a doubt.
People who worry about getting followers are dumb. Not the kind of people we need on Nostr to begin with.
Finding content and people to follow on Nostr is dead simple. Just search for a hashtag and read that hashtag's timeline for a while and you'll find people to follow.

2024-09-16 20:25:59

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If every X user was on Nostr, there would be 20TB of data per day. No relay would save all this. Most Nostr users will opt to have only a few days worth of posts saved, the rest will be deleted.

2024-09-16 11:55:28

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Coinbase surpressing BTC price by selling IOUs to the ETFs (rumoured).

2024-09-15 09:33:42

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Yea I thought so, so I was giving you feedback that there is a little typo :)

2024-09-13 12:40:08

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Very cool. Love these splashes of art in my timeline :)

2024-09-13 12:35:22

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which tool are you using for these creations?

2024-09-13 03:03:43

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how is this financed??

2024-09-11 02:35:59

I'm planning to learn how to draw at age 42. Main reason is, I want to instill this skill on my daughter so she learns how to observe the world in detail as early as possible and hopefully be able to entertain herself with a low time preference/long attention span activity early on as well.
I subscribed to a Udemy course and got myself all the equipment (pencils, paper, rubbers, artist tape, compass, ruler).
Has anyone gone down this route with success and can recommend learning resources that really worked?
#asknostr #drawing #learning #art

2024-09-11 01:48:07

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very cool, but one problem is:
as social media posts virally spread by people re-posting them, you are supposed to get mostly replies from people that you don't know at all - that's where the wisdom of the crowd comes in that makes social media so powerful.
if you only get replies from people that you follow - most of them likely don't even follow you back - you basically just have a group chat with your closest friends, a small echo chamber.

2024-09-10 14:00:55

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I just read Herodotus' Histories and learned that one reason why the Greek prevailed against Xerxes and his 2.5 million Persian invaders was because the Greek were free men and Athens was a Democracy, so these men fought for their own freedom and their own personal rights. Xerxes men were slaves and fought for nothing.

2024-09-10 11:59:35

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I think Nostr is immune to this. At least that's my hope.

2024-09-08 00:48:58

I actually highly doubt that Nostr will ever have good enough UI/UX for normal people to use it - and that's a good thing. #note15kr…jl7u

2024-09-06 09:20:38

That ReplyGuy is turning into a real problem now. Is anyone working on a solution??

2024-09-05 19:45:02

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We didn't demonize elites - they did that to themselves...

2024-09-05 07:20:34

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Arrgg... quited wrong note... sorry...

2024-09-05 07:17:42

This guy drops knowledge bombs every day 🤯
#note1kz2…xafl

2024-09-05 07:16:50

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Alby only gives you channels via KYCed methods, like a SEPA bank transfer, isn't it?

2024-09-04 13:00:26

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Yea it's online and I can also use it in Primal and Damus...

2024-09-04 12:26:46

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I did, but it doesn't work 🤔

2024-09-04 04:52:49

In #noStrudel can I adds my own relay that is running on Umbrel and should be accessible via Tailscale at `wss://umbrel:4848`? I'm trying to, but it always shows as disconnected?!

2024-09-03 13:51:40

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I did the same a months ago. I still look at the first 10 tweets or so once a day and it just reaffirms that this is the right move.
Twitter is ULTRA toxic. Every single post has a negative sentiment about something. It's a giant cesspool where everyone fights against everyone. This just can't be good for the human brain. It's a cortisol and adrenaline vending machine.
Here? Every post is "hey look guys, I build a cool thing, whaddaya think?"

2024-09-03 13:47:49

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Have a look at the people who I follow.

2024-09-02 14:36:52

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How are we going to fight spam bots? I already see some automatically posting replies to posts. It will be impossible to out-mute them as they can create infinite new nsecs at no cost.

2024-09-02 14:00:38

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Cologne Cathedral? :)

2024-09-02 04:54:02

If you think that @npub10pe…n34f should fund @npub1hxj…agw3 , maybe reply to this post and @-tag OpenSats...
I've been reading their posts for half a year now and without fail their cover absolutely EVERYTHING that is going on in the Bitcoin/Nostr space, plus relevant geopolitical news that are relevant to freedom of speech and privacy.
They never miss a thing. You can completely tune out of the entire life consuming social media madness, add their RSS feed to your reader and just read that one post every day and you won't miss a beat.
This is a huge service to the community!
#note1pdd…5e03

2024-09-02 03:17:20

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If the client UI makes it easy and clear to set a topic, those people who care about posting high signal content to their diverse audiences will definitely not forget - and those are only the people really worth following anyways. Don't care if someone abuses it to spam - I would simply unfollow them.

2024-09-02 02:33:18

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Would be cool if we could set on our profiles a list of topics we usually post about. Then for each post we could set to which topics it belongs. Then people could decide to follow just certain topics of a profile instead of the entire profile.

2024-09-01 19:24:44

Hey @npub10pe…n34f is there a chance that you could fund @npub1hxj…agw3 ? They deserve it!

2024-09-01 18:48:24

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The big influencers actually DO invest in "insurance". They simply have accounts on several social networks.

2024-09-01 14:32:25

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time to try out the SEPA transfer in Alby and load up some corn... :)

2024-09-01 11:24:44

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I had a quick look at the docs, I'm not sure I understand what this is? Isn't this just another Nostr relay server? What's so special about this?

2024-09-01 09:51:18

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It might be prudent to not publicly announce who does and does not buy bitcoin.

2024-08-31 12:35:31

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How is privacy protected better? This is probably the most important aspect to me.

2024-08-31 10:06:46

Anyone here who has used #Umbrel and #Start9 ?
Which one would you recommend and why?
#asknostr

2024-08-31 07:29:31

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The fact that we can't get shadow banned here is liberating.
I strongly assume that I have been shadow banned on Twitter ever since the pandemic (didn't gain a single follower in four years, the same ten people interacting with my posts but no one else)...
Once you know that something like that can happen to you, and you have no way of seeing when it is happening, the entire user experience is forever spoilt, since you will constantly ask yourself if you might be shadow banned once again.

2024-08-31 05:58:57

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Yea I had done all that. Still doesn't work.
Here's a thing I don't understand... I use Primal and ai can zap there and receive, it seems, Primal is its own wallet as well.
Now when I also use Damus and connect via Alby to my own LN node... when someone zaps me, how does Nostr know where the sats should go? Into my Primal wallet or into my Alby wallet??

2024-08-31 01:44:24

How do I connect Damus to my AlbyHub on my Umbrel (reachable via Tailscale).
When I select Damus on the AlbyHub apps store and get that QR code and copy the pairing secret and the paste that into Damus, I see a connected wallet but the address is wss://relay.getalby.com or something and zapping doesn't work.
#asknostr

2024-08-31 01:37:49

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Governments are past that stage. They have understood that banning the tech is not possible.
They now just throw you in jail if you use that tech.

2024-08-31 01:34:06

Hey @npub1tm9…xn72 , whenever I get a zap, there is a red notification dot on the "Zaps" item in the Settings.
It's kinda annoying, shouldn't it be enough if the zap shows up under "XX Reactions"?

2024-08-30 07:42:34

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I feel like that makes life even more unbearably frustrating, because it would mean that the most limited people somehow magically also become the most powerful and successful.

2024-08-30 01:25:08

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I wouldn't trust your site to not log my IP, so I gather it is supposed to be used via Tor only?

2024-08-29 12:23:10

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Almost everyone who runs bitcoin and lightning nodes.

2024-08-29 10:49:46

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Thank you! Just ordered all their books :)

2024-08-29 10:35:36

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where can I buy this?

2024-08-27 04:02:31

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Forbes didn't write about this. It's an opinion piece from a community member.

2024-08-26 11:40:56

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@npub13rm…2jgh might have one...

2024-08-26 05:09:03

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That depends on what you want to do with your time.

2024-08-23 03:13:37

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Wow, I had no idea that private follows are becoming a thing. That kinda sucks. I thought this web-of-trust to unfuck online reviews (and bot spam) sounded like such a great idea.

2024-08-22 22:03:34

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You should team up with @npub1dtg…up6m
https://remnantchronicles.substack.com/p/reviewing-reviews

2024-08-20 14:53:40

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So what you are saying is, this Nostr thing has zero chances of ever going mainstream? 🤔

2024-08-19 05:28:14

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I'm still waiting for an invite since over a month...

2024-08-19 02:18:26

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Isn't Reddit basically *the* forum?

2024-08-17 01:24:42

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All these Korean dramas that I see my mother in law watching on TV all day long...
They are basically nothing more than fashion shows... every scene is just two people standing at some location and talking to each other, with some silly piano music in the background...
This can basically be produced by a single person now, with incredibly beautiful looking people and outrageous fashion.
The script can be written by AI as well and would probably be better than the real dramas.
Crazy times ahead.

2024-08-16 02:25:51

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Hmm. I can't name any recent action movies that are as fun, so I would say it is actually a good movie series.
It's James Bond but without the wokeness.

2024-08-15 02:41:27

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If I create an anonymous identity to post something, how do I make it known?
I guess, tag some well known accounts, hope that they support my cause and ask for a re-share?

2024-08-14 05:37:17

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"Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data"
Nothing stops the big boys to sync all data from all relays and then get deep insights into every Nostr user (and de-anonymize them) as well, right?
Nostr doesn't actually solve the "data ownership" problem. It makes it worse, because there is no delete, what you post here will truly haunt your for the rest of human existence.

2024-08-13 09:42:14

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I still often wonder why this company is allowed to exist.
Sounds too good to be true.
I assume that the big boys just assume that literally everyone will eventually make a mistake and doxx themselves, so they are fine to let people use this service.

2024-08-13 09:38:14

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how do you kill those trackers? that looks like some Android app?

2024-08-13 08:11:38

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I don't see notable battery drainage from Primal on iOS... I think Twitter actually drains it more when used equal amount of time.

2024-08-12 05:17:21

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You might want to consider to join Letterboxd, Lynn.
I find the ratings there to be generally reliable. Never went back to IMDB ever since I made my account there many years ago:
https://boxd.it/zu4c
And as you can see, this one is generally very very well received. 4.X ratings are usually top notch movies.

2024-08-12 05:12:36

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Why would that feel like "an effort".
Just do it :)

2024-08-10 13:48:34

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Being on Nostr doesn't really help if they can still identify you and throw you in jail.
People would have to post anonymously, and in ways so that they can't be doxxed, which can be hard especially when they report about things happening on the ground, citizen journalism style.

2024-08-10 11:34:09

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Is your friend actually Singaporean? It's quite tough to get the "license" to homeschool here, at least for locals.
I will start a group on meetup.com next month to build my network here.
There was an article on CNA recently about homeschooling in Singapore:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/homeschooling-not-faint-hearted-family-parents-children-education-big-read-4379321

2024-08-10 08:41:26

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-and

2024-08-10 08:40:24

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Not a mum, but and a dad who retired in order to homeschool my daughter in Singapore. Hoping to get some insights and inspiration from you :)

2024-08-10 05:51:02

Very interesting debate.
Thinking about this: We will never build something the scale of Twitter with the relay structure that we have right now. Twitter generates 12 Terabytes of data per day. There is no way that relay operators will store all of this for all of time for free. This is natural. A decentralised system will always be more expensive and wasteful than a centralised system.
I am actually PAYING MONEY for a SaaS that deletes my tweets after a week (although I have no doubt that the NSA stores it all for eternity anyways).
It seems, we need to rethink what "social media" is supposed to do: It is supposed to be a network to spread information quickly around the globe. Something like a digital neural network.
It is maybe NOT supposed to be long term memory as well. Maybe if we want to create a lasting legacy of content, we need to find other systems. A self hosted personal blog would be the obvious way - if we can circumvent the need for the centralized and censorable DNS system (Tor etc), that would be good enough for censorship resistant long form content.
So I think, if Nostr relays by default only store events of the last 30 days, that would be good enough - AND EVEN THAT would still be infeasible for all but the largest and well funded relays if we would reach Twitter scale.
#note17ye…gx0a

2024-08-08 10:45:48

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How do you do that as a client developer? You would have to make a new release with a hardcoded blacklist? Your client already makes requests to some central server of yours to retrieve the blacklist?

2024-08-08 10:07:18

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How?

2024-08-08 06:10:04

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Are clients really relevant for censorship resistance? It is the relays that can censor, not the clients.

2024-08-08 02:35:39

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To gain mastery through repetition.

2024-08-07 04:05:43

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See? Almost there.