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2022-10-21 20:07:14

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Like queries that would get sent to relays, or this is purely a client-side thing?
(I may have misinderstood the convo here, I was thinking in terms of algos like say recommending new contacts or interesting posts, flagging fake accounts, search functionality, etc.)

2022-10-21 19:49:35

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I wonder if APIs exposing such algos could be a type of "layer 2" for nostr. Since relays already have databases of events they may not be too hard to build on top.

2022-10-19 23:10:20

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For the most part as a user I don't care about spam because I don't follow spammers. It seems like more of a problem for relays.

2022-10-19 23:08:55

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I feel to some extent spam will have to be addressed by standard server-side rate limiting and banning of abusive IP addresses at the relay level, that at least helps keep the complexity out of the protocol itself

2022-10-17 20:40:49

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were they

2022-10-17 20:40:33

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Whatever happened to Parler? Are they still operating or were forced into hibernation?

2022-10-15 19:36:48

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This also doesn't require any changes to the underlying protocol

2022-10-15 19:33:39

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I do think there's still room for data-driven methods that detect this type of thing. All the data is out in the open so anyone can build heuristics or algorithms for flagging non-human accounts, for instance. Those algorithms can then be open sourced for any relay operator or client to use.

2022-10-15 17:22:44

Anyone else seeing an *increase* in mask usage in their area? Society seems to be getting dumber.

2022-10-14 17:58:46

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It may be instructive that PoW was originally invented to deal with spam but AFAIK isn't used for that today. Everyone uses machine learning, which may work on nostr too.

2022-10-14 17:56:29

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Regarding PoW, how would this work exactly? It seems to me it's only effective if all clients opt in (If a client doesn't do you just ignore PoW for those clients? Then all spammers use that client. If you require it then you ban everyone that uses the client. Both seem bad.)

2022-10-14 17:01:29

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Actually that may not work because then you'd have to pay multiple times to send to several relays

2022-10-14 16:58:24

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I think this idea was already suggested, but certain relays could charge a toll in order to post to them (but not read from them). These relays will tend to be spam-free.

2022-10-14 16:54:33

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I still like the idea of making a small payment to use nostr (although if it's not crypto that probably becomes painful to implement, and if it is you alienate lots of people). Easily eliminates 95% of spam and provides some type of monetary incentive to developers or relay operators.

2022-10-12 23:03:07

JP Morgan cancels Kanye West for wrongthink: https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1580331572539949057
This shit is out of control.

2022-10-11 17:39:45

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He must think nostr has some serious lag

2022-10-08 15:32:40

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Looks like this is pretty much the proposed NIP-21 I guess

2022-10-08 14:05:13

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I feel this should be pretty easy to do (theoretically at least), when you ask for DMs prove ownership of your private key and then the relay only responds with DMs sent to the corresponding public key

2022-10-08 14:01:55

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Could it be part of the protocol that relays only send encrypted messages if they know the person receiving is the intended recipient? In that sense the relay is behaving more like a private server and should solve any privacy concerns.

2022-10-08 13:12:29

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IMO from a privacy standpoint it's probably better using nostr only for public communication. If someone wants to carry about a truly private conversation I'd rather use an encrypted DM to set up an actual peer to peer channel that isn't broadcast to the world and use that instead. No point storing the events for everyone else to see even if they can't decrypt them.

2022-10-08 13:01:24

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I think it was btcd. I did a bit of reading and apparently lots of people have complained about extremely slow sync times, possibly due to garbage collection. I switched to bitcoind and after a little over a day have gotten further than five days with btcd.

2022-10-07 18:22:33

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I agree they suck when in comes to delaying transactions. What issues have you had with them out of curiosity?

2022-10-06 21:53:11

Has anyone tried doing a complete blockchain sync with btcd and had problems with it being insanely slow? I'm five days in and only on block 455,000

2022-10-05 20:07:24

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Is there risk of someone just running away with your money after you pay? Still not sure how the coordination would work.

2022-10-04 20:10:08

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I was looking into Robosats too. What's your preferred way of transferring fiat to the seller on there?

2022-10-04 19:47:37

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This looks interesting, will check it out and test some small amounts. Seems a bit scary though for a newbie wanting to make big purchases.

2022-10-04 19:37:23

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Originally it was stocks but now it's all cash

2022-10-04 19:09:49

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It's like 1.5% but I'm trying to convert an entire portfolio so it becomes a lot. Wondering if there are any exchanges that cap transaction fees for instance.

2022-10-04 17:58:15

What's the cheapest way to buy large amounts of BTC? Coinbase wants to charge hundreds of dollars in fees.

2022-10-02 16:11:27

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Would they really though? I would bet most are fairly risk averse and would rather just check people in rather than eat into their own income in order to avoid it. There might even be benefits to them in keeping track of their customers the way the government wants to.

2022-09-28 21:19:18

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CBDCs seem the most nefarious. The idea of allowing the government the ability to program your money seems utterly dystopian and anyone who goes along with it is an idiot. Personally I've reverted to using cash almost everywhere.

2022-09-26 18:49:03

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I should probably do this too

2022-09-19 19:50:50

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Mine wasn't working so it ended up in the trash 😞

2022-09-01 02:48:22

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These are nostr's OG handles

2022-08-31 21:41:15

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Define optimized

2022-08-26 21:48:35

Fakebook recruiters keep emailing and I really want to respond and just say "Pronouns in email signature."

2022-08-24 16:30:45

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Can a reply to a "like" be treated as a reply to the message that was liked (at least in terms of how it's displayed in a UI)?

2022-08-20 16:37:46

Are there any gotchas to hashing messages that contain escape characters in the content? I keep getting the wrong hash according to noscl when content contains things like \n or \"

2022-08-20 02:46:22

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It was Rust and yeah I was wanting to break and jump to the end

2022-08-20 02:43:29

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Apparently Golang has GOTO...

2022-08-20 02:39:10

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I was mostly joking, but got the urge when I had something that I wanted to happen at the end of every iteration of a loop, but also wanted to sometimes end the iteration early. Easier to GOTO instead of paste the code into two places.

2022-08-19 21:36:00

Am I bad at coding if I start wishing a language had GOTO statements?

2022-08-17 20:46:26

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!joke pun

2022-08-16 17:49:03

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It's hard to understand why hospitals would promote such madness. Do you think it is just money, ideology, or a combination? Seems like a blatant violation of the Hippocratic Oath whatever it is.

2022-08-15 22:08:23

What kind of "layer 2" stuff might be useful to build on top of nostr? I've been wondering about amassing a large, open data set of events and building traditional HTTP APIs and / or simple algorithms on top (e.g., the spam scoring use case)

2022-08-15 03:24:23

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Maybe one idea could be the "orange check" I've heard a few people mention. Pay a small amount (in bitcoin, say) and that gives you a certain verified status, which could come with the ability to filter out non-verified users if you want.

2022-08-15 01:21:39

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That actually raises another question, could those running relays become criminally liable if someone decided to use the protocol for, say, publishing illicit images or breached data?

2022-08-15 01:13:57

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Maybe I'm too naive, but given that communication is largely opt-in on nostr (person A doesn't see person B's posts unless they follow them, with few exceptions) I don't see much point to censorship. As long as users have the ability to block others it's very easy to create your own filter bubble. I could see relays wanting to defend themselves against spam or posting of illegal content though.

2022-08-14 13:49:43

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It kind of reminds me of the old IRC days

2022-08-14 13:29:17

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#[2] In the fetch_joke match expression is there comma missing after the Ok branch?

2022-08-14 02:15:02

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I wonder if also it's appealing to managers / authority figures because it provides a way for people to signal allegiance to the group (you know someone is obedient if they say the right slogans)?

2022-08-14 02:07:54

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Very interesting points, I think in a lot of ways progressivism does seem like a type of religion (e.g., the "confessions" about privilege). It's just scary how many people have fallen into the trance so quickly.

2022-08-14 00:58:42

#[0] As someone who's been in technology for a while, do you have insight into why wokeism is so widespread in the industry? It now seems almost uncommon for people to *not* advertise their pronouns.

2022-08-06 23:36:38

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Hmm thanks for letting me know. May be some serious lag issues

2022-08-06 21:03:11

Opened up a relay at wss://zerosequioso.com if anyone would like to add it