tf

I'm worth a million in prizes
With my torture film
Drive a GTO
Wear a uniform
All on a government loan
I got a lust for life!
https://youtu.be/HuBU3pzy7is?si=VH3o0T-WX1_4Y0Ro

2024-09-18 15:49:24

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Good night 👋

2024-09-17 22:36:11

Project Saturn
Manipulating opinion through algorithmic incentives is way more insidious than deplatforming naughty ppl for wrongthink
https://i.nostr.build/sPtlL1aGMm5gEtAR.jpg
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/17/twitters-pre-musk-plans-mirrored-elons-vision-until-he-abandoned-trashed-or-ignored-them/

2024-09-15 18:11:47

@nprofile…xuyp it seems there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution 😏
https://i.nostr.build/nPhue3XWITr4KvaX.jpg
https://web.plc.directory/

2024-09-15 09:27:39

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Welcome 👋

2024-09-13 17:51:34

Character, innit
What's the line between conforming with correct thoughts and a pluralist society?
A book titled "Character Limit" about Elon's stewardship of Xitter is being released in 4 days
The author is taking a pop at Jack on Bluesky and in the book
https://i.nostr.build/TU42qFhckthsvsBd.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/vQcvecicZX1RPvn0.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/i1UO2LWsoLCrM129.jpg
It's all kinda funny
"openly sharing"
How dare he!
A still from a YouTube video at more than two hours in
My God!
I didn't know that a man's character could be summarised by a few social media posts
I didn't know that sharing something implied agreeing with everything that is said within
In the immortal words of Rich Hickey
I still don't know that! 🤣
The most I agree with anyone is like only 70.2%
Is character scrutiny something that the world needs
Ultimately it's empty theatre
The world isn't improved by dividing it into good people and bad people
It's improved by building things
That requires cooperation
That requires forgiving the social media posts that we disagree with
And promoting the talents of other humans as flawed as ourselves

2024-09-11 17:48:41

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Yes

2024-09-03 13:49:13

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🤔 I vote Carl 🐱🐾

2024-09-01 16:58:07

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Wrote Protocols, Not Platforms which at least partly inspired Jack to move Twitter toward being a service on an independent protocol, which ultimately led to the formation of Bluesky
https://www.techdirt.com/2019/08/28/protocols-not-platforms-technological-approach-to-free-speech/
This month he joined the board of Bluesky
https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-06-2024-board

2024-09-01 10:29:28

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https://i.nostr.build/nsyp66QfXgvY3eXX.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/dxOHPxEYOs23xFys.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/cK4H8vYPiU4wx5FQ.jpg

2024-09-01 06:15:05

@nprofile…kdah something weird happened to nostr stats? The sudden drop to 10k looks unnatural https://i.nostr.build/NLX6My6K9PhjD0NL.jpg

2024-08-31 17:00:46

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Welcome 👋 beautiful photos 💜

2024-08-31 16:45:49

Big influx from Brazil into Bluesky
One report of 500k signups over the last two days
Many won't care about decentralization and all that jazz
20% chance Bluesky is targetted by Justice Mordor before the end of the year

2024-08-30 03:33:37

Fuck-Droid are awful
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/6013
https://4w.pub/f-droid-bans-feminist-social-media-site-spinster-then-bans-people-asking-questions/
https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

2024-08-27 13:45:08

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Aren't they just! Little spirits bouncing along

2024-08-22 17:08:58

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No prob 😊

2024-08-22 13:45:30

Aced it 🔥
https://i.nostr.build/UOz74vGqIdrZHsBl.jpg
#nevent1q…45g5

2024-08-21 11:43:48

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Good morning 🌞

2024-08-20 16:47:46

Nostr and Bluesky are frenemies
Nostr is a ship for free spirits
It's a pirate ship ☠️⚔️🛶
Bluesky is a rescue vessel for ppl who are afraid of freedom and afraid of choice 🚢
And they're held hostage by an algorithm of awful 🤖😈
Different ships for different reasons
The numbers really don't matter

2024-08-20 14:22:32

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I wouldn't swap Nostr's 40k community for the 2 million on Bluesky or the 100 billion trillion on Twitter
I wouldn't even swap the plebs I blocked 😆
In some sense Nostr has won

2024-08-19 15:26:48

hysteria vs wisteria
https://i.nostr.build/eLom1PGLiQ3plIOZ.jpg

2024-08-19 09:30:17

I like!
#nevent1q…nnpe

2024-08-19 09:07:38

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Good morning 🌞😊

2024-08-18 15:54:14

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From what I can see the escape Elon crew generally dislike & fear censorship resistance
I think the best that can be hoped for is they go somewhere that shifts the Overton window

2024-08-18 05:35:22

I'm amazed that digital networks have been around for 65 years, the internet for 35 years, and we still don't have words to talk about networks.
There's only a weak consensus about the meaning of network topologies like "federated", "decentralized", "distributed".
And there's no terminology for talking about the human control of those networks.
People use "decentralized network" and assume that you know that they mean human control.
Others think that human control and topology are the same thing.
Imagine if all nostr relays were owned by one corporation. The network topology would still be decentralized!
"Decentralized network control" doesn't cut it because "control" in terms of networks usually means automated.
Network science is a field of study but the language is still pre-scientific 😔

2024-08-17 13:54:31

Definition
---
A permissionless network provides open and irrevocable access to perform the data operations defined by the network protocol

2024-08-16 16:36:33

https://i.nostr.build/gzE75EEgyrloeaV8.jpg

2024-08-16 14:55:21

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Maybe a child of b) and c)

2024-08-16 14:54:29

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I guess partly b) because relays can and do but not always federate?
The node to relay relationship is many-many which isn't any
nostr is weirdalized 🤔

2024-08-16 14:15:38

The shifting meaning of decentralized
It used to be only b)
https://i.nostr.build/wtxs7zh97YIEeRFn.jpg
Nodes attached to distributed servers.
Now that's called federated and decentralized means not a)
https://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/resources/articles/what-is-a-federated-network/

2024-08-14 13:20:20

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Morning good 🌞

2024-08-11 19:32:02

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I think in theory you could swap out the AppView your PDS is connected to and everything would stay the same
But you couldn't do that with a relay. You'd need all the other architecture to connect to the new relay in order to maintain your apps and frens
Every component depends upon the relay

2024-08-11 17:07:28

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Sure it's from
https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

2024-08-11 12:39:30

This is not chaos
It's also not decentralized
Spot the single control point
https://i.nostr.build/qQ87FgBaNXih6FDc.jpg

2024-08-11 12:37:20

So much emerges from chaos
The mistake of the post-90s internet was imposing order
https://i.nostr.build/mtILSdO7SqXO2pui.jpg

2024-08-11 06:10:38

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Why is it cold?

2024-08-10 15:58:35

Imagine that
https://i.nostr.build/E3eDZC3jEGHFl0Hm.jpg
https://liberland.org/

2024-08-10 05:13:36

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Paid relays really need documentation
Are they pay to read, pay to write, or both?
If they're pay to read they're unsuitable as outbox relays
If they're pay to write and they don't accept replies from non-paying npubs to paying npubs they're unsuitable as inbox relays
What exactly am I paying for?
I've got no idea for any of those relays

2024-08-09 21:19:35

Wait ... fuck Christmas cake?
#nevent1q…9yf2

2024-08-09 21:13:49

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Nice article
I grew up in the same era and at various points in my life I've identified with most political labels under the sun
My love affair with labels ended on Twitter, where I saw that almost everyone of all political stripes was a complete asshole
And the problem was the labels themselves
The final straw was seeing my self-righteous political tribe conduct online bullying campaigns against survivors of sexual abuse
It still shocks me to write that
So I left Twitter and the labels behind
Everyone is flawed, so yeah absolutely what people do, if they can manage to be kind to each other that's all that matters
Politically now my beliefs are too nebulous to fall into a category, I think
I value more freedom, that's about it
Political parties seem like a bit of an anachronism anyway, there are surely better ways of sharing a planet

2024-08-09 16:14:34

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oooooooh wait
fuck stir
fuck function
fuck explode
https://i.nostr.build/hLpa7ar4dckUW1AW.png
fuck superlegierung
(fuck superalloy)
fuck dauerkurzschluss
(fuck permanent short circuit)
fuck weihnachtskuchen
(fuck Christmas cake)
https://i.nostr.build/EMaPcB61DIPfW0Ta.png

2024-08-09 14:10:52

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OMG that's genius
First three from randomwordgenerator.com
Fuck entertainment
Fuck research
Fuck fountain

2024-08-08 17:20:06

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Including self-hosted relays or just 3rd party?

2024-08-08 13:19:46

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It's a shame that they can't / won't fix content migration because ActivityPub is cool tech
I like it a lot more than ATProto

2024-08-08 10:19:17

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@nprofile…8qkt console error loginWithNsec is undefined
Also, has login with browser extension been removed?
@nprofile…nfkt you can also write long form with Yakihonne and Habla. Yakihonne is working better for me atm

2024-08-08 04:58:35

Bluesky focusses on aggregates and quality levels
Nostr focusses on individuals and rights
So you have the Bluesky app which is high quality but the Bluesky network is entirely centralized
And you have a watertight Bluesky marketing program going VERY hard for a particular target audience
While #nostr isn't targetted
#naddr1qq…ddeg

2024-08-08 03:37:41

The Yin and Yang of #nostr development
Nostr needs the enthusiasm and the energy to explore the protocol and do crazy shit at the edges
Nostr needs to get basic shit nailed down
Atm I feel the balance is too much Yang and @nprofile…pqw8 throwing a bucket of cold water is #goodvibesonly
Nostr devs could use a month or two of not writing new feature code and not starting new projects
Just testing, fixing, refactoring, going through open issues and merging bug fix PR's
Then back to the fun stuff
#nevent1q…s74w
#nevent1q…0nsm

2024-08-07 16:46:10

Does this expression look pessimistic? 🤔 #hopepunk
https://i.nostr.build/3k27eYHFUN7liBGw.jpg
“Buddhist pessimism paralyzed India. State patronage helped it build massive centers of ‘education,’ but what use is an education that tells you that you cannot know the truth or improve the world to minimize suffering? Buddhism and its centers disappeared from India around the thirteenth century. Its sages were brilliant, but their pessimism prevented them from developing vibrant, political, legal, or economic theories and practices. They could not develop an interest in technology and science.”
— Vishal Mangalwadi

2024-08-07 16:13:26

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This quote sounds (maybe) like Mike still views decentralization primarily through the lens of companies instead of individuals. In that case censorship resistance may continue to be a defining difference between #nostr and ATProto
“One of the key things that has fascinated me about Bluesky is that they have made it clear from the beginning that they recognize how a future version of the company could, itself, be a threat to the vision the current team has,” Mike Masnick concludes, “They are designing the system to be technically resistant to such a threat — which is why building an open protocol is so important.”
I wrote about that a little here. Enshittification resistance vs censorship resistance 😊
#naddr1qq…ddeg

2024-08-07 15:27:15

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Mine was delayed a little ~ 20 seconds

2024-08-07 12:35:41

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Happy birthday 🎂🎉🫂

2024-08-07 09:50:43

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OMG my private relay is on the list 😂
Ya the total online (657) is up about +30 from 6 months ago
https://i.nostr.build/Yxkilc9Ys4QvpPX4.jpg

2024-08-07 08:46:04

Thoreau spent his time building inner wealth which cannot be held ransom
Potentially a dangerous man
In the end that's the wealth you take with you (I believe)
#nevent1q…jaq0

2024-08-07 08:23:11

In a time long before Bitcoin boating accidents
"Because the government will retaliate, Thoreau says he prefers living simply because he therefore has less to lose."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)

2024-08-07 06:40:31

Walden is great meditative nature writing
I'll never forget his descriptions of the loon
https://i.nostr.build/pOD8sAoGgFORn4tz.jpg
(photo credit Ray Hennessy)
#nevent1q…kdll

2024-08-06 12:42:00

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Morning Onyx 🫂🌞

2024-08-05 11:16:31

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Good morning 💪🌞

2024-08-05 05:26:58

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Japan has 50,899 CIA agents
https://i.nostr.build/HFapPXhsQ3vcmBQA.jpg

2024-08-05 03:57:59

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Giving zero weight to the opinions of ppl who disagree with you is the path to bad life choices
Like for example, supporting wars and oppressive governments

2024-08-04 17:19:42

This is mostly incorrect
* Chávez did not nationalize the oil industry, it was nationalized in 1976 as the state-owned company PdVSA
* Chávez did not hold a referendum on nationalizing the oil industry
* There were no sanctions related to Chávez (not) nationalizing the oil industry
* The only economic sanctions the Obama administration imposed were in 2011, denying U.S. government contracts to PdVSA due to PdVSA supplying Iran. That was 2 years before Chávez died. Sanctions by the Obama admin after his death were targeted against individuals (denial of visa's, freezing of assets) for human rights abuses
* The 2011 PdVSA sanction *did not* hold Venezuelans in poverty. U.S. imports of Venezuelan crude increased in 2012 and GDP hit the highest ever level
* Crude prices collapsed by ~ 60% from 2013 - 2015 and with it the Venezuelan economy, exacerbated by government overspending, debt, waste, destruction of industry, corruption and inflation. See https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/16/how-venezuela-struck-it-poor-oil-energy-chavez/ for a sad history of how Chávismo destroyed their people's mineral wealth
* Economic sanctions were imposed in 2017 by Trump and continued by Biden until 2023. These were boneheaded and immoral and *did do* substantial harm to the already pulverized economy and neither removed Maduro's illegitimate (see coup 2016 - 2017) government nor resulted in democratic reforms
#nevent1q…urhq

2024-08-04 11:19:07

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Please could you describe what the "severe economic sanctions" were and the dates that "Obama imposed" them.
And references for this "referendum to nationalize oil" and the "severe sanctions" that were imposed afterwards
Thanks!

2024-08-02 12:00:16

The @nprofile…t5ph report on the Venezuelan election is excellent but grim reading
https://hrf.org/ongoing-electoral-fraud-in-venezuela/

2024-07-31 12:08:28

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It's by @nprofile…luxf

2024-07-31 09:29:40

Family-friendly nostr relay with sentiment analysis by @nprofile…luxf
In a docker image with strfry bundled
Awesome 👍
https://github.com/atrifat/nostr-filter-relay

2024-07-30 12:07:29

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Good morning Onyx 🫂🌞

2024-07-22 16:45:05

No software is perfect
Apart from vim

2024-07-21 03:26:12

This would be useful
Kind 3 is a replaceable event, there's no changelog
So I think it would have to be done client-side
The client would compare any kind 3 events containing your npub it retrieves against a cached list of all such events it has ever found
OR
We need a notification event kind representing a new follow, so when following someone the client publishes two events: the updated kind 3 list and the notification
#nevent1q…9ln0

2024-07-20 12:55:05

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6,000 miles east and a little south... Keelung, Taiwan

2024-07-20 11:36:34

https://i.nostr.build/8WoaiA4sB4lpiVuP.jpg

2024-07-15 16:31:00

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Ya I installed it on a VPS with 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM
Got no users, ha! But it works 🤗

2024-07-15 10:48:05

Yeah, can we have 3rd option plz
#nevent1q…emxr

2024-07-13 11:17:22

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https://i.nostr.build/aFRMdn8hv9AdtoDJ.jpg

2024-07-10 15:04:51

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Beautiful shot love those colours and light 🤗

2024-07-07 11:57:51

Fishing boats going out to sea
Decks adorned with giant glass filament bulbs
And a family rock pooling 🦀
https://i.nostr.build/J629l.jpg

2024-07-05 12:13:41

Peace 🌊🌞
https://v.nostr.build/jYXlg.mp4

2024-07-02 14:28:30

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Good morning Rustypuppy 🌻🌞

2024-07-02 13:32:40

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Good morning Eliza 🌞🌻

2024-07-02 09:32:27

https://image.nostr.build/a18d432c1051cf4c74c0432a4f4170f97dc3c57d5dc99787b7d12eb3aab33833.jpg

2024-07-02 09:24:57

“We cannot have a society in which if two people wish to communicate the only way that can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them”
That quote goes hard
It's very hard to collaborate over a Twitter
Free collaboration is not much liked by governments or corporations
#nevent1q…wa49

2024-07-01 13:25:14

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Good morning 🌸🌊🌞

2024-06-30 05:48:30

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Yeah it ain't that

2024-06-29 18:06:37

@nprofile…al0v
New installation of Ditto
Added two admin pubkeys using deno task admin:role
The Dashboard menu doesn't appear for either one
And /soapbox/admin gives forbidden message
nak shows the events look ok I think?
{"kind":30382,"id":"7001e9e1c68ee1a37770cd8e0652b32eda66f371dd516142748d134dce84dd8d","pubkey":"09f3a86f02f68a44c9effdd27e69fb00200c8f070fbcefe0bbf004922a4fead2","created_at":1719683807,"tags":[["d","1b8e64c614748da614b08529fdb09a88a5f4816a62e1b1a15d94d75b898eb3f2"],["n","admin"]],"content":"","sig":"9390b5956db5e53c1b6f5fd32f221de9888193737ea6f59a70a738b7f11e0e1371a3e7c61227fab3a11ac0dbfe090328dadbeb1016b84432fb5aaa9e9b20033d"}
{"kind":30382,"id":"43dabd1c286a55a2d8d44b99086181a10b689739558afdb0ecdc9d2b11950fb6","pubkey":"09f3a86f02f68a44c9effdd27e69fb00200c8f070fbcefe0bbf004922a4fead2","created_at":1719683232,"tags":[["d","2b258b8530ecf553a31c797817d10c36acac4f86d2567f790c1c1713b8858ce2"],["n","admin"]],"content":"","sig":"789cfeed653e0280692797668d9136d4562a99db044f09c8cea2cd98b76e46e6e0649bd5526aa3d53e1731c6978a523550df897c22e4dfd76f729f9e27714f4a"}

2024-06-26 04:47:54

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The author is @nprofile…ahwe

2024-06-24 17:57:05

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Yes, definitely
To both questions

2024-06-18 06:05:15

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Hmmm if I understand this correctly although part of the broader problem I think there are different concerns
Yes using the internets leaks your IP all over the place
Yes downloading images leaks your IP
A specific concern with connecting to untrusted relays is associating your nostr pubkey with your location and movements
This doesn't need to be fatal, ppl can use a trusted proxy relay either personal or public like filter.nostr.wine which does all the inbox/outbox stuff
Sure VPN / tor is better for privacy but it's good to have options

2024-06-15 13:34:27

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Welcome!
Beautiful photo

2024-06-14 05:22:29

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I get your point, I think it's an issue of freedom
So I'd like there to be options
To use relays that do/don't honor delete requests
To use clients that do/don't honor delete requests (or better, have that as a configurable option)
I imagine this will come in time
That implies that there is no freedom to permanently delete things, only to express a preference
But that was always the case
For it to be otherwise it would have to be baked in an enforceable way into the protocol

2024-06-13 11:03:52

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I'm loving @npub1sg6…f63m s new shirt
https://image.nostr.build/37937f6529c5c457166a4bb424ef1d1ec0df398489bf727243f95acfb6fb3da3.jpg

2024-06-13 08:26:26

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Sure seems that way!
Not my business but if you don't mind the question, why were you banned?

2024-06-13 08:13:02

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I think Mastodon norms are not something I'd care to understand or want to be a part of
I think Maven should interface with nostr
https://image.nostr.build/d8c5c464f56815bc80f70ffadf0d1633edeaf365cbf9a83b256f0b7d5ae50910.jpg

2024-06-12 14:31:52

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Or even https://image.nostr.build/dfab1334774ef8c6f2af4e588752da7fc1556f853cbcfee9af60f8b8fcf92b8c.jpg

2024-06-12 14:18:50

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Morning Eliza
And wow errr the Coracle app settings has a link to media hosting providers
https://github.com/quentintaranpino/NIP96-compatible-servers
It looks like maybe Coracle can be configured to upload to multiple providers, not sure how that works @npub1jlr…ynqn ?
If it's a large file might need to pay something
#nevent1q…wgnt
As others have said maybe torrent is better for now not sure

2024-06-12 10:54:10

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Good morning Ilis ☀️

2024-06-10 17:18:52

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Seems that Wikipedia would like editors to not insert their own interpretations, at least not directly, and that's being applied overzealously
https://image.nostr.build/238c2d710cf993601d13a0ca50aa0feeac6bdb4ffeb9978c6d3f45b2eb1c4953.jpg

2024-06-10 16:38:01

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Don't rely on the official GitHub definition of the protocol, rely on ... newspapers (!)
Lol Wikipedia
https://image.nostr.build/f045b2efcee4559742dc777d8e0f23cdefcf8db5f488b6eb098f54eb8882955e.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/502df77e30fad04eb04c6706fe1741682b3f40516649771d744d6499c748e249.jpg