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2025-05-30 23:39:09

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I do not see where in my coinos dashboard to extract an NWC connection string. Guides mention a gear icon that does not appear in my coinos interface.

2025-05-30 23:35:28

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I've been doing decentralized tech for a while. Have played an early role in a few decent-sized projects that never quite got widespread traction. When Moxie was starting Signal, I remember him saying that decentralized is way harder to win. And he was right. But if you want the win to be worthwhile, that hard path is the only real option.
And yeah, I spin up containers willy nilly just to see what things are like. Disposable containers are such a great innovation.

2025-05-30 22:21:04

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Docker is a game-changer for managing upgrades. I don't do a ton of audio books, but I have a pile of photos, ebooks, video, and a music collection going back to the mid 90s. Hosting my own wiki as a knowledgebase is super useful. Same with Readeck for remembering the things I read.
I use tinc to access the box from wherever, which lets me use the wiki while out and about. It's like wireguard, with smarter routing. If I am at home, I get a direct connect instead of going out to my vpn server and then back in to my home to reach the NAS. Tinc is a pain to put on a phone, though. Wireguard is much easier to setup and maintain on mobile.
For back up, borg-backup is pretty great, but for low-value data (e.g. popular media) I just rsync a copy somewhere periodically and call it good enough. Tinc lets me put a box offsite and back up to it pretty easily. If you want something more commercial, Backblaze is solid and inexpensive.
I've never used a commercial NAS box, just generic linux boxes with lots of drive bays. There's something unsettling about depending on Synology not to forget who their customer is. For most things I want to do, that's good enough, though I am probably missing some ease-of-use features I don't even know about!
Good luck with your #homelab!

2025-05-30 21:03:15

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I #homelab. Grabbed a cheap 4-bay NAS box. It's just a generic linux machine loaded with drives. It runs a bunch of native and docker workloads to manage media and a personal wiki. I have resisted doing anything mission-critical on it because I don't want downtime to ever be urgent -- I already have a job and this shouldn't feel like one.

2025-05-30 14:48:59

Nostr's secret weapon is anarchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07Yq4zGTcI

2025-05-29 23:24:43

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Sorry to hear that. Tomorrow you have a chance for a better one. I hope the good times find you.

2025-05-29 21:27:34

One major problem with verification in a decentralized system is enforcing semantic consistency. What does verification mean? NIP-05 is a very base level assertion, but it is consistent. NIP-05 lets controller of a web site asserts that a key is a specific user. For some reason we add a check mark to profiles because of this, but the checkmark is not useful. Users can't rely on it to be meaningful.
GPG's web of trust is another verification failure. Some people check passports and drivers licenses, but most just verify that they "met" in some fashion. And some do an email verification, which probably gets closest to the actually-supported semantics. But it's a mess and WOT semantic inconsistency makes it not very trustable.
Bluesky is going to take tight centralized control of their verifications. Not as tight as Twitter, but tight. They're going to verify some verifiers. That seems doable, but I have doubts they can scale that and maintain consistency.
Nostr doesn't quite have this option. We could collectively create a web of verification, but there's no way that scales consistently. It wouldn't be any better than what we have right now. NIP-05's simple assertion is as good as it gets for the moment.

2025-05-29 20:44:21

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In principle, yes. You would have to deal with the usual consistency issues, but it's definitely doable. If you have a specific use-case in mind that you actually want to build, DM me and I can connect you to some folks who have been building interesting things with mediawiki and know its guts better than most.

2025-05-29 17:52:40

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnIhXVQ-424

2025-05-29 15:28:52

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https://www.factcheck.org/2024/07/flawed-autopsy-review-revives-unsupported-claims-of-covid-19-vaccine-harm-censorship/

2025-05-29 14:28:35

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What are you trying to model?

2025-05-29 01:48:52

Israeli ambassador chased off campus by #FreePalestine protesters in Senegal
Israel’s ambassador to Senegal, Yuval Waks, was forced to leave a university campus in Dakar on Tuesday after students protested his presence and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans, according to footage circulating on social media.
Waks had been invited to speak at a conference on international relations practices at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD), the country’s largest and most prominent higher education institution. But as he arrived, dozens of students gathered outside the hall, chanting “Free Palestine,” “Free Gaza” and “Israel is a war criminal.”
Videos shared online show students waving Palestinian flags and booing the newly appointed envoy, preventing him from delivering his speech.
Waks was escorted off by security and left the campus without addressing the audience.
Protesters continued to follow him, shouting slogans and waving flags as he departed.
Waks, who also serves as Israel’s non-resident ambassador to Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Chad, presented his credentials to Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on May 8.
Israel has kept Gaza crossings closed to food, medical and humanitarian aid since March 2, deepening an already severe humanitarian crisis in the enclave, according to government, human rights and international reports.
Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, killing over 54,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war crimes against civilians in the enclave.
News article: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/israeli-ambassador-chased-off-campus-by-pro-palestinian-protesters-in-senegal/3581465
Shakycam: https://bsky.app/profile/sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social/post/3lq7qzgvhuc2j
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2025-05-28 21:32:05

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And when they come for Nostr, what's the plan?

2025-05-28 17:55:55

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It is worth noting that this isn't a flaw in OpenPGP or GPG or anything like that. It's only Proton Mail's javascript implementation that's buggy. It's not a flaw in the algorithm. The math still works. But signing things in Proton Mail (and whoever is is using their code) broke.

2025-05-28 15:32:29

I once asked a ham radio buddy of mine what he chatted about on his radio. He said they mostly talk about ham radios. That's what Nostr is like. It is the premier technology for talking about Nostr. Seriously, if you are passionate about chatting about Nostr, there is no better medium.
Any ham radio people out there?

2025-05-28 01:50:53