plantimals

https://drss.io
https://npub.blog

building bridges from RSS => nostr and nostr => RSS. nostr seems like the ideal mechanism for distributing feeds of all types, but especially blogs and podcasts.

reading: naddr1qq…wqcz

Public Key

npub1mkq63wkt4v94cvq869njlwpszwpmf62c84p3sdvc2ptjy04jnzjs20r4tx

NIP-05 Address

rob@buildtall.com

NIP-57 Address

plantimals@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsdmqdght96kz6uxqrazee0hqcp8qa5a9vr6sccxkv9q4ez86ef3fgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5cfftlh

Publishing to

nos.lol

nostr-pub.wellorder.net

ditto.pub/relay

Author Public Key

npub1mkq63wkt4v94cvq869njlwpszwpmf62c84p3sdvc2ptjy04jnzjs20r4tx

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2025-04-24 20:54:46

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the idea's time is now.

2025-04-24 20:31:57

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I made a thing to demonstrate this:
https://npub.blog/npub16gwqt4qw6stjd2g9kg2pfl76jpxj4ethgqr05tgwwp064n2aw20s9quukf
https://npub.blog/npub16gwqt4qw6stjd2g9kg2pfl76jpxj4ethgqr05tgwwp064n2aw20s9quukf/rss
the urls are ugly, sorry

2025-04-24 20:24:01

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add imeta tags to mp3 urls to your posts, and the rss bridge can turn them into audio/mpeg enclosure, and you've got a podcast

2025-04-22 22:53:59

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ΔC

2025-04-20 16:20:38

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nostr, specifically web of trust, will be very important for maintaining human connections during this onrush of ai manipulation

2025-04-13 20:17:06

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would you call this "compatibalism"?

2025-04-13 14:30:15

".... I take the prompts from the Product Manager AI, and give them to the engineer AI....
I'm a PEOPLE PERSON, GOD DAMNIT"

2025-04-13 00:15:54

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context later?

2025-04-02 11:38:15

https://image.nostr.build/6413952bef69218ce032105e790ddd9cadcb457ee2381945251100ef44b04732.jpg https://image.nostr.build/981e2999efec942fe324c7d4bae5640805904651eaf82df6ff497ad7771bb2db.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7c782eddab2bf03e667dd7375b9b4cf7eac1819adbc6df9a6757c37c9c6ae1ba.jpg

2025-04-01 12:28:53

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"This provides additional evidence for a kind of conceptual universality—a shared abstract space where meanings exist and where thinking can happen before being translated into specific languages."

2025-04-01 12:02:01

https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model

2025-04-01 11:23:37

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I guess we'll find out when you wake up from sleep tomorrow morning, lol

2025-03-23 16:41:03

https://youtu.be/DUoAFPhgHcE

2025-03-22 16:01:54

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npub16sq23d0f0algnztk65gmsa9fj6p90anap2reucwlk94zxge7ve3s5pscjz this thread is of interest to you

2025-03-22 13:33:56

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and it's not even close. ownership and agency beat undifferentiated hype

2025-03-19 12:36:38

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a decision results in an emission of data, and an action an emission of energy (money)?

2025-03-18 21:33:54

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I don't do python. on the Go side of the fence, I can say that https://templ.guide/ is a beautiful templating solution for hypermedia.

2025-03-18 17:00:08

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thank you. I am trying to solve the mobile web login problem myself. do any of the alternatives stick out as most useable?

2025-03-18 15:51:12

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where in the process are you seeing "read only"? I was able to login using nos2x just now.

2025-03-17 12:37:21

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@nprofile…jrdl your comment about a run of "qqqqq" in a response triggered my thinking along these lines.
nevent1qqsxu2haxc2dxeglrmrpg48gu8yja5qx23ncmh3kk9nr42usjtdenagyna6v0

2025-03-17 12:33:48

"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges
https://archive.org/details/TheLibraryOfBabel
is the the story that got me into Borges' work. it's an incredible work of fantasy that illuminates much about humanity by casting us into a strangely different universe, that of the infinite library of hexagonal rooms, each filled with books that contain seemingly random and non-repeating strings. the people aluded to in the story have different and illustrative takes on the situation.
I will not be the first person to compare the library to the world hashes. the world's bitcoin private keys are all printed in this library, the true identity of Satoshi is there, along with proof of the falsity of his true identity.
it is an even easier leap to apply the library to nostr. the whirl of hashes all mapping to meaningful information, it's the great book that explains the meaning of the library that some where searching for. there actually is meaning in there.
and like all bitcoin private keys, every note that can ever be composed is listed in the library.
a project that visualizes the library exists and is brilliant: https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi?0-w1-s1-v01:1

2025-03-16 17:33:01

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looks like solid premise. hope to see how it works. if you want to upscale, go for 35 gallon drum (with holes drilled around the top) inside 55 gallon drum (with holes drilled around the bottom)

2025-03-15 13:02:37

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one must imagine sisyphus with inbox zero

2025-03-12 12:18:05

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gm ☕🌄

2025-03-11 19:53:19

I've really been enjoying these long-form posts from @nprofile…zx3h
#naddr1qv…khg9

2025-03-11 01:05:14

is anyone working on an MCP server that connects to relays?

2025-03-01 23:03:30

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there are a lot of ways to get it done via nostr, but I decided we need one more. still adding basic functionality, but https://npub.blog will render an npub's articles as a "blog" with an #rss feed

2025-02-27 16:09:46

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@nprofile…45wt

2025-02-27 14:25:25

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one day, dark and light cycle, per year. checks out

2025-02-27 04:28:13

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welcome to the frontier

2025-02-25 20:27:40

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a horse walks into a bar
the bartender says: "why the long face?"

2025-02-25 18:55:48

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do you consider email a requirement for a nostr-based substack alternative?
I can understand if the anwer is "yes", as there are many technologies which seem antiquated compared to the nostr-way, but they may be crucial bridges to onboarding people and content.
I personally look forward to the day when I will only encounter email as a historical curiosity.

2025-02-24 13:44:31

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gm 🌄☕
the nostr network effect is unique in that it isn't gatekept by a demonic personified entity, but dietributed to those who provide value to the network. the nostr network dividend. just like bitcoin distributes the seigniorage dividend to those who hold it over time, in proportion to their holdings.

2025-02-23 21:47:38

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it is beautiful. spring can't come soon enough

2025-02-22 16:29:17

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we could drop the dns and get away with using bare IP addresses, but that would be a painful hack. we'd end up with people camping on easily remembered IP addresses recapitulating DNS inside nostr. hmm.

2025-02-22 16:27:23

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I agree there's a lot that can be done by just not having the human readable layer. maybe that is enabled by WoT.
still, there is probably room for something human readable, even if it's something more like seedwords for an npub, just to allow people to speak it.

2025-02-21 22:20:53

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follow 2-3x more people at least

2025-02-21 19:00:31

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going grapheneos?

2025-02-21 15:54:26

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if someone wants to reform the current polis, I wish them luck. meanwhile, we'll be here building a parallel polis, based on our values.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Polis

2025-02-20 21:52:03

after delving into the outbox model ( https://mikedilger.com/gossip-model/ ) I'm realizing it is much simpler than I thought, and makes perfect sense. thank you @nprofile…nq40 for pushing this through.
if you are working with nostr clients, this should be on your reading list

2025-02-20 02:15:42

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I'm looking at https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/51.md and not seeing how I would make a list of lists based on what's already in there.
which `kind` would you use to represent such a list?

2025-02-20 01:42:48

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the only missing protocol component is a list of lists kind

2025-02-20 01:34:00

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I like the idea of an app that turns opml files into lists of lists of npubs that represent rss feeds. also the reverse, lists of lists of npubs i to an opml.

2025-02-19 14:49:55

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and the supply of gold, even if you include all existing gold, known or unknown, in the universe, is still not fixed. with enough energy new gold atoms can be made

2025-02-18 19:01:35

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I tried before seeing this message. doesn't seem catastrophic. after hitting update, then clicking install in the dialog, it goes back to zapstore and indicates it's still on `0.2.3`. but otherwise it is still functional, and offers the same update again.

2025-02-17 22:31:56

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obsidian
neovim
sparrow

2025-02-12 23:19:52

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well, I'm not aware of a site that will render a blog like site for a collection of articles published by an npub. I'm working on that.

2025-02-12 18:27:02

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why not an npub that publishes long form articles once a week?

2025-02-11 02:45:18

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cleared cache and same results

2025-02-11 02:28:02

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cleared cache, reloaded, and I see the same result. (btw, this is not urgent for me, just hoping to be helpful in debugging)

2025-02-11 01:50:09

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I dropped it in a DM

2025-02-11 00:18:55

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hmm. I can get the legacy side working, but the next side loads a black background and a svelte favicon, but no visible elements.

2025-02-10 14:16:40

I'm pulling in RSS feeds and publishing articles for each item. when I do so, I set the published_at date to the same as that of the RSS item, but leave the created_at date on the event to be the present. this seems like the most protocol-respector way of doing it. but now I am running into the pain of returning articles from a certain date, filters can generally be made to apply to the presence or absence of tags, but not "since" or "until" type of operations on the "published_at" tag.
tl;dr - are there any obvious drawbacks to back-dating the events so I can filter appropriately at the relay layer?

2025-02-10 12:56:51

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gm 🌄☕

2025-02-10 12:48:45

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@nprofile…c3pj whois the proprietor of
https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast

2025-02-09 17:24:33

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bitcoin standard @nprofile…6g5h and then "Mandibles" @nprofile…zx3h

2025-02-08 17:57:46

using @npub1wyu…87ez for a change and it's pretty amazing. there's a lot going on, but I like how it is not specifically a social media app. the experience seems to be centered on managing one's nostr presence, or accomplishing tasks.

2025-02-08 15:34:27

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gm ☕

2025-02-08 01:47:37

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@nprofile…6eqn

2025-02-07 21:55:25

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I'm in my profile and on the lists tab, but I don't see any way to add items to a list or see what's on the list. is there a way to edit lists in @nprofile…20y8 ?

2025-02-07 16:17:41

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not sure if that project is an ongoing concern, but I am fascinated by the idea. I would like to use lists for collecting things as I encounter them while nostr-ing

2025-02-07 14:45:10

I'm using https://listr.lol, but the "add to list" button says "coming soon" @nprofile…hppf is that something wrong on my side, or actually unimplemented?

2025-02-07 14:30:27

another example of ambient music that makes for productive coding bgm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKZ3fGR2SDY

2025-02-05 17:27:25

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if you are talking to someone into maths, I find that explaining a cryptographic hash, a function that cannot be inverted, is a great hook to garner some interest. that's going to be a rare slice of the population to be sure. but some of us travel in scientific and engineering circles, and it helps to have a few different approaches.

2025-02-04 13:14:50

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do you mean the open timestamps nip03 style?

2025-02-03 14:15:26

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if you just enjoy the thoughts in the moment, typically they are lost to mists of impared memory. writing them allows you to look at them in the cold light of day. then you have the option to retain and enjoy the ones that still make sense.
it's not much different than writing down any dreams you remember. you can collect those writings and look back at them, and it is possible for them to impact your future in that way. where if you let them pass without capturing them, they are usually lost.
it's a low percentage of highdeas or dreams that are worth remembering, but some of them are really beautiful, insightful, piercing, etc.

2025-02-03 02:30:08

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he's a fascinating character and I'm glad he's podcasting now.
just watched this recently:
https://youtu.be/vabwGiTWRVo

2025-02-02 21:28:01

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hmm, that is odd.

2025-02-02 21:11:49

testing cashu. who wants some?
cashuBpGFteCJodHRwczovL21pbnQubWluaWJpdHMuY2FzaC9CaXRjb2luYXVjc2F0YXSBomFpSABQBVDwSUFGYXCFpGFhAWFzeEBjOTg0YzI3ODA4YzhkMDk3Y2IzYjA5YTM3Y2Y5YjI4YmYzOTI0NGM5ZTk3Y2JkYWZjY2VjMGY5NmQ1M2NmNmJkYWNYIQLNhSe95l28ePq9HpNqcnjs6Ydx1u3eTE5YvoCe8h-pyGFko2FlWCAMeI3eTKTQl3svNsrnhQNl3mCVqmNVqFZkpzXor8hZwWFzWCDfb_9QIRXFDEEXQC_88t4T-5t89fJWgky8CHiLOSn6ymFyWCBVsoo_80IDFpMtdT4r30tI7qyjr2nd2avRs325kvz7BKRhYQJhc3hAZTFmMzc5OWI1NTc3M2I1MmI3YWRkOWE0MTc3ZWQ1Y2QzMjUwYjVlMDE0ZTM4NWUyMDI1ODk1MjU2NTg2ZjJiN2FjWCECecnwGZ3DruoWWiy9u070wJ12R93VNOJ6wRJAhU3POx5hZKNhZVggT_sndCrZoUwwlDgqNXLs7ok8DxhJFiRRCvFJGMByN7hhc1gg75Na_tqp1W_jgimR7Jaa8sgn_jhQc1ZQ48BQXgsM9xRhclggQ5CKhVKxGdW3cXMr_GXqzELHOXB7Y5JPyUAXNWRh2qakYWEEYXN4QGZkN2M2ZTJjMzdkZTU2MjJmZjA2MTE3YTMzNjViNTYyNjk5NjhkMmIzMjE0NWYwZDRkNmIxMTljOTQwMjU5OGVhY1ghA8JwOTCK_n51-38wY_0rIJn09xKMaSVIx7C5BY4s92lNYWSjYWVYIALvmU6YkMU8Q8mfDHx5wJVXKTtEIqLtnduHt0VCxzhrYXNYICaIn70IbvqvY3HG5l5Uu1tpaIfdxIfoWRmqmIeVEN5TYXJYIN26C74cGC--EB16Z711x_EynUEHUTGLmFAwYk69VaG8pGFhCGFzeEAxZDg1OGM5YWU4NzQ0MWY2Nzk5MTJlYTJkYWJmZDZkNzE3MDJlNzIwMTI1OGFiNmM2ODdmMmYwNjVlYzc1NzQ3YWNYIQOBlG-1faUqWmn-6VQlt-z63vl8Ze2g5RyAymsjR2rUpGFko2FlWCDKSLbl_Wfqu1ys-OcjhArSBIUdboaE3IFIKR82yqdvTmFzWCDeHCRYXjI2Dm6_l-g07L5hi0NIv6noPfCIv_6Hbod_7WFyWCCBe0dKT2fWH2_NdXl4Qp7GcATR1vEXk2MTrJ0xwkc-3qRhYRhAYXN4QGQ0MTdkOThhNDE0NzkyMjU0MzYwMjljZDYzMjhlZTQyNjA4NGUzNTJiNTA5ZjFmOTZlNjYzNjhkYzczOWJlNWJhY1ghAxgGIoVOy8mFKn8ltmx9GLJKSp0nNHCYZaoAIVIqiXMwYWSjYWVYILaFowt4NJpBybgh3cKGxm7p61fOPGbVcaRVIYB69wACYXNYIMUYWeJVhCIFz9Zae6cfkwAoCGJ491sshUVtuOwuOlvcYXJYINZkOK4XGC_c_jlF4yjHItG8XIOaWb9c2xOetvJWn_xNYWRyU2VudCBmcm9tIE1pbmliaXRz

2025-02-02 16:02:04

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if you hook up a lightning address to your nostr account, people will send you sats for your work. everytime I see your art (posted by you), I reach for the zap button only to be disappointed.

2025-02-02 15:51:20

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exactly that. won't get a found block to the network fast enough

2025-02-02 15:44:08

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yes, they could still transact on the earth-chain, but could never mine blocks out there. the horizon is some sliver under 10 light-minutes away, as you couldn't submit a block in time. sometimes you might sneak one in, but you're playing at a huge disadvantage as even when you got a block, you'd likely not get it the rest of the network in time.

2025-02-02 15:29:22

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when we have colonies on mars, they will need to be on a different chain, as it is more than 10 light-minutes away. will you stack any martian btc in that case?

2025-02-01 16:41:18

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welcome to nostr, there's been an influx of artists lately. glad to see it, we need help expressing the abstractness of what is possible here.

2025-01-29 15:20:45

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#kolaches ftw

2025-01-28 21:44:09

#plantimals
#nevent1q…ta7u

2025-01-28 16:40:32

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in your original post, you mention letting it go for 4-5 hours and then wrapping. a better way to decide when to wrap is to base it on temperature. you will want to get it up to 165 or so internally before wrapping. then the goal is to get it up to ~203 for the final breaking down of collagen. once you hit that point, sticking the temperature probe in should feel like it's going into warm butter, no resistance after you poke through the wrap. then take it off and rest for as long as you can. serve when internal temp hits ~140. the slower it takes to cool down, the better situated will be the fat and juices.

2025-01-28 16:26:59

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is this from Jack Butcher?

2025-01-28 03:21:14

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@nprofile…sxhl you might enjoy using the #go nostr library that @nprofile…pjsj started: https://github.com/nbd-wtf/go-nostr

2025-01-27 21:12:04

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I did not, but I am aware now.
https://github.com/0ceanSlim/go-nostrss
I am going to look closely. I am working on project to do just that.

2025-01-27 21:05:19

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HTMX for the win. I love the GOTH stack: Go, Templ, and HTMX.
and unasked, I give this: embedded sqlite is a blast too

2025-01-27 04:22:26

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"Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people."

2025-01-26 21:41:58

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it can be seen as "selling" but "spending" feels better and more accurate

2025-01-25 18:57:47

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the scales look like crinoid calyces

2025-01-25 14:34:53

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gm ☕

2025-01-24 18:53:29

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sounds similar to "emotive conjugation"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation

2025-01-24 13:56:26

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got it, that worked. thank you!

2025-01-23 13:51:23

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that's great man, thank you. lots of running around today, tomorrow I will get it running and send you a bounty if it works.

2025-01-23 13:46:14

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I'm open to anything that will fix this. you are suggesting I can wire up my cashu wallet to the zapstore app? do they support NWC?

2025-01-23 13:29:07

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thank you for your help @nprofile…r7w9 . I'm using @nprofile…94nw backed by @nprofile…sg0j Hub. I am not able to find a "magic string" in either. I searched for any extant docs or guides and am unable to make sense of this. can anyone point to a resource that explains what the string is?
my goal is to us nostr wallet connect to fund payments for the apps I use regularly via the zapstore.

2025-01-23 01:23:30

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I agree, this would be a very impactful feature.

2025-01-22 23:28:27

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I would have a much more detailed response, but your note only shows up on my phone, via amethyst. on my desktop, primal doesn't see this. hmm
my one quick point here is that value for value is amazing, but I think the much more direct use of zaps via nostr could be a better alternative. or at least equivalent. I want to build things that people with bitcoin find valuable, and nostr is a good starting point for that audience.

2025-01-22 22:10:24

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I am glad to have a reasonable conversation.
I agree that the file format is not a problem. It successfully conveys the information we need. And indeed, it could be copied to multiple places, signed, etc.
My point is that the same job can be done in a much better way if it were #NOSTRNative. One aspect is that RSS is a polling process where the file is downloaded at a regular interval and scanned for new contents. This paradigm is inverted by nostr, where an event can be published when there is new content, eliminating the wasteful traffic spent polling.
You are right that relays still depend on domain names and servers. I just think that NOSTR will offer a better pathway to substrate independence and uncensorability.
The pathway to a better version of what RSS is trying to accomplish will be found in using NOSTR directly, rather than reimplmenting some kind of identity and auth scheme for RSS.
My guess is that most of the blogs and podcasts I follow will one day originate as NOSTR notes and get syndicated into RSS feeds by services offering such. I am working on just such a service myself. I don't want someone like you to have to choose. I want the content to be addressable in whatever format you prefer.
"The core ideas of nostr offers redundancy and identity, both of which can be adopted into the RSS feed. "
In this we are in close agreement. And thank you for your reasoned response.

2025-01-22 20:33:45

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I hope we can get to the time when we don't need RSS anymore. I agree it is decentralized and serves us well even today. but the paradigm of an NPUB being the source of a stream of verifiable notes that contain blog posts, podcasts, any of these things, that's where we should be going.
At the moment you either need to have your own domain or rent space on someone else's to get an RSS feed stood up. While DNS has not yet been fully weaponized, I think we all realize that it can and will be some day. the NPUB separates our content, or at least our reach, from that system. along with all the other obvious benefits.

2025-01-22 20:29:08

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there's not really a facility for uploading files directly inside of notes. you can add a URL to a note, or even use a file metadata note to point to that URL.
if you are looking for some other way to store files, try looking into the blossom server spec from people like @nprofile…acju and @nprofile…rnkd

2025-01-22 16:53:16

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feeds for all the things. blogs, podcasts, it should all be npubs putting out articles, etc

2025-01-22 15:55:41

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GM ☕

2025-01-22 15:54:06

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paging npub16sq23d0f0algnztk65gmsa9fj6p90anap2reucwlk94zxge7ve3s5pscjz

2025-01-22 02:08:24

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dayum, that's fantastic. are they year-round there?

2025-01-21 22:31:42

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they are out of season in north america. did you freeze them? do they keep well?