Aspie96
Valentino Giudice

https://www.functorfault.net/

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2026-02-25 23:58:38 UTC

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I'd say I'd rather be shot, because it's more cinematic.

2026-02-25 23:57:55 UTC

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But you can't starve and be shot, unless you're only shot in places where it won't kill you, so you can starve, or shot once starved to death. But in that case it won't really be you being shot, just your dead body.

2026-02-25 23:40:34 UTC

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I know this is an unpopular take, but, as a user, I think the ideal use of Nostr is that of a free-speech Twitter clone where users barely ever have to think about relays.
This is compatible with the implementation of groups, by the way.

2026-02-25 23:39:24 UTC

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Have you considered those people are retards?

2026-02-13 00:55:11 UTC

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Yes, but I think it's worse on Nostr and Nostr is also more fragile in some ways.
It would help if Nostr had a responsible community, willing to use it in a manner that doesn't harm the ecosystem.

2026-02-06 05:58:29 UTC

https://qummunismus.at/a/article196/

2026-02-05 23:51:24 UTC

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Segregated relays also don't protect from spam (not more than general-purpose ones).
The issue you mention seems about the global feed. I think it's almost bound to be shit, but it can be addressed via hashtags.

2026-02-05 05:58:50 UTC

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Why does left/right leaning matter?
Also, why should this be solved through relay segregation, rather than shared follow lists, use of hashtags (and, if we ever get them working, Reddit-like communities)?

2026-02-05 05:57:32 UTC

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Verifiers could choose whatever criteria they want and users could chose what verifiers they want to follow, but I think the purpose of excluding spambots is the most sound one.
There would be many ways of doing it (CAPTCHAS, government IDs, meeting people in person, checking membership to certain organization, you name it).
I don't think this mechanism would be ideal for checking "proper" accounts that don't post naughty stuff you don't like. Cutting out spambots is also most important, since what they generate is noise, corrupting all signal.

2026-02-05 05:54:16 UTC

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No, ti sbagli.
Non c'è un "come l'hai descritto". L'Unione Europea e anche l'Italia usano l'espressione "software libero" e "open source" come sinonimi (in genere preferendo il secondo) e li definiscono in modo esattamente equivalente a quello della comunità FLOSS (ossia codice sorgente disponibile sotto una licenza libera e open source).
Ci sono politiche favorevoli al software libero in Unione Europea, in Italia e perfino a livello regionale. Ce ne sono altre che invece sono ostacoli, e questo va corretto, ma dire che la UE odia il software libero, o che da una definizione diversa all'espressione, è errato.

2026-02-04 05:53:54 UTC

🇮🇹 Il mio feedback (in italiano) alla consultazione dell'Unione Europea sull'open source. 🇮🇹
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-Ecosistemi-digitali-aperti-europei/F33370257_it
#nevent1q…3p5v

2026-02-04 05:51:04 UTC

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It is easily implementable, but not through follow lists.
Following someone signals interest. You may very well be willing to verify an account even if it's not interesting (as long as it's a human and not a spammer).
In addition, follow lists are stored whole in one event. This is fine, because you shouldn't follow too many people.
But it is absolutely reasonable for a verifier to verify several thousands of people, even automatically (through some kind of CAPTCHA, or whatever other form of verification).
So I think it requires a somewhat different implementation, but it would be doable.
I also don't think hiding all unverified replies would be a good idea, but it can be used as one element for filtering. Clients could show a verification checkmark (the one they show for NIP-05 identities, while they really shouldn't, because that one is not about verification) and maybe prioritize those replies.

2026-02-03 23:55:47 UTC

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It can be used for spam filtering.
Surely the people you follow aren't spammers (if they are, you are really bad at following people). Maybe you trust that those they follow also aren't spammers. And maybe you trust that those that they follow also aren't spammer. Presumably, you trust this only up to a certain amount of degrees of separation.
Personally, I think this shouldn't be done through followings at all.
Rather, there should be account dedicated to certifying users. Each user may seek verification from multiple account. Each user may trust any amount of verifiers. If a user is verified by at least one verifier you trust, your client shall mark that user as verified.

2026-02-02 04:51:44 UTC

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Really, though, I don't think the problem is people using centralized platforms, or even proprietary software, but, rather, people *depending* on it.

2026-02-02 04:51:32 UTC

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> i really hope that in 100 years, it will be just as common and just as serious to say "i believe in Free+Decentralized Software" as it is now to say "i believe in free speech"
So, like, not at all?
(Sadly).

2026-01-31 05:30:41 UTC

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Zap haven't ensured Nostr will fail, they are just its most overrated, useless and annoying feature.
Nostr may still succeed in spite of zaps.

2026-01-24 05:53:50 UTC

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It doesn't bloody matter what it says.
Even if it said "MUST" it wouldn't matter, relays can do what they want. And NIP-09 is optional anyways (but even if it were mandatory, relays would be free to defy it).

2026-01-24 05:52:52 UTC

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Always assume someone has a copy of whatever you ever publish at any given point in time, even if you cannot fetch such a copy.

2026-01-24 05:52:23 UTC

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> Relays will just
Do whatever the fuck they want to.
You never use Nostr trusting all relays you talk to will do or not do something. They do whatever their ownever wants them to do.
> It’s up to clients to make the event disappear once it gets the deletion event.
Clients do whatever the developer or the user (often the same person) wants them to.

2026-01-24 05:50:03 UTC

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What you thought is correct.

2026-01-24 05:49:36 UTC

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No, they are not, they never were, they were never supposed to be and it's a good thing we have a social media that isn't editable.
The core kind of note on Nostr (NIP-10, which used to be part of NIP-01) is not editable and never will be.

2026-01-24 01:20:26 UTC

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It's interesting that the advice applies the same to ICE and thugs.
What else do they have in common?

2026-01-24 00:59:55 UTC

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Courts are part of the government.
They enforce laws made by the legislator, they are made of people picked according to the law, they are the mouth of the law.
Many laws which infringed upon human rights have been enforced by courts, sometimes correctly so (in the lack of higher laws preventing such violations).
A law can be morally illegitimate but legally valid. It must be challenged politically.

2026-01-24 00:57:35 UTC

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The two reasons are aligned.
People giving up power to corporations, and allowing them the role of filtering speech, isn't illegal and isn't strictly speaking a political problem, but it does erode democracy.
It doesn't mean, morally, that centralized platforms *ought* to be neutral and have permissive policies (although some choose to do so). You can make the argument none owes anyone the tool to exercise fundamental rights, so long as they aren't actively infringing them without their consent.
However, it'd be nice, and healthy for democracy, if people did have a tool to exercise their fundamental human right to freedom of speech, which is neutral and not subject to the will of the owners of corporations or capitalistic interests.
That's Nostr.
It doesn't remove governmental censorship, but it does a lot of good to freedom of speech and can be a tool for democracy.

2026-01-24 00:07:32 UTC

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I do wish for Nostr to, maybe not solve, but at least address other issues, primarily corporate censorship.
Companies often censor content which is absolutely legal. It's also legal (and one could argue moral) to censor content, since they own the servers, but we have the right to reject their role and power as middlemen and Nostr can address that.
Government censorship and violation of basic civil rights (such as the non-retroactivity of laws) isn't a technical problem, it's a political problem which can't really be solved by just nerding hard enough.
> When the state acts against the will and the best interests of the people, do we have democracy?
In some cases yes, but not if it violates fundamental human rights.
Democracy isn't about having perfect laws, or maybe even good laws, it's about empowering the people (not just the majority of them, all of them).
Fundamental human rights such as democracy, the right not be prosecuted for what wasn't illegal at the time of the act and the right to influence political decisions are all that democracy is. There is nothing more and nothing less to democracy than that.

2026-01-24 00:01:58 UTC

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It would be bad if that specific note were deemed illegal, yes.
I don't think it's necessarily bad that it's hard to say you didn't write what you write.
Nostr isn't supposed to be a means to publish illegal content. It's not failing at doing that, it was just never supposed to do that.
The purpose of Nostr is to publish things so that it can be proven that you wrote those things, which is exactly what you may want if you wish to have a public outlet.

2026-01-23 23:51:38 UTC

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You are usually only guilty for what is illegal at the time you do it.
If I do something, then it becomes a crime, I can't be charged for it.
Of course, even these basic principles of democracy can be broken, along with freedom of speech, but Nostr is not even supposed to be a solution to that problem, it never was.

2026-01-23 06:08:47 UTC

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> If this note is later deemed illegal, it will be difficult to say that I didn't write it.
Which is not necessarily bad.
Nostr isn't a lawbreaking tool and, if it catches on, morons that treated it as such will face some stupid consequences.

2026-01-23 06:07:24 UTC

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Yes about notifications.
The new messaging system should be more private, however (in the old one, the only encrypted thing was the content of the message).
I think it's very important Nostr users actually understand how Nostr works.
Please, take the time to actually understand Nostr at a technical level. Everyone will benefit.

2026-01-23 05:49:43 UTC

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I read your comment, then read the OP and still seemed to be about the author.

2026-01-22 03:31:02 UTC

cc: @npub1wp2…hpv0, @npub17ky…g0pz
(Please share with FLOSS zealots).
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Europe #SoftwareFreedom
#nevent1q…3p5v

2026-01-22 02:58:20 UTC

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MORE INFO:
1) What is open source software?
By "open source software", also referred to as "free software", "FOSS" or "FLOSS", EU institutions mean the exact same as the free and open source software community.
Note that EU institutions mean the exact same as the FLOSS community does.
If you are not confident, please read my blog post here: https://www.functorfault.net/posts/free-software/
2) What questions must I answer?
In your comment to the call for evidence, you must focus on the questions in the attached file (available in 24 languages).
They are:
1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the EU open-source sector? What are the main barriers that hamper (i) adoption and maintenance of high-quality and secure open source; and (ii) sustainable contributions to open-source communities?
2. What is the added value of open source for the public and private sectors? Please provide concrete examples, including the factors (such as cost, risk, lock-in, security, innovation, among others) that are most important to assess the added value.
3. What concrete measures and actions may be taken at EU level to support the development and growth of the EU open-source sector and contribute to the EU’s technological sovereignty and cybersecurity agenda?
4. What technology areas should be prioritised and why?
5. In what sectors could an increased use of open source lead to increased competitiveness and cyber resilience?
Please, answer with *absolute honesty* and absolute accuracy. Just once.
If you are not a EU citizen, you can still answer, just correctly mark that you are not.

2026-01-22 02:45:55 UTC

🇪🇺 The European Union wants to hear you! 🇪🇺
The call for evidence regarding the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy is open.
You can answer from anywhere in the world (even non-EU countries) and in any official EU language of your choice.
Before answering, please:
1) Actually understand what open source software is.
2) Actually read the questions, carefully.
(More info in my comment below).
LINK: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213
Regardless of your opinion about the European Union, this is a great opportunity to support software freedom.
The feedback period ends on the 3rd of February 2026.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

2026-01-21 23:27:58 UTC

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Minors use social media better than politicians appear to do.
Politicians banning them from social media is out of order.

2026-01-20 05:20:07 UTC

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Thank you!
I like your spelling of "either".

2026-01-20 01:49:38 UTC

Is this true, did this happen?
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/the-vote-trump-spam-that-hit-bluesky-in-may-came-from-decentralized-rival-nostr/

2026-01-20 01:25:32 UTC

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Yes, please, the site appears to be broken.

2026-01-19 23:49:50 UTC

Hey, @npub1wp2…hpv0.
I think I once saw you suggest a relay to someone.
It was a free relay, but it required (free) registration.
Is it possible?
What was it?

2026-01-18 05:55:16 UTC

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People often, *very mistakenly* assert that free software and open source are different things, sometimes linking to an article by Stallman I've read and I understand well (I even got him to fix an error, how many can claim they got Stallman to change his mind?), but they clearly do not at all.
The free software *movement* and the open source *movement* are different, but the two phrases refer to the same category of software, with possibly very sporadic exception that only lie on the very boundary of such category. Both movements agree about this, it's not controversial among the people that actually made these phrases popular.
Now, Stallman and his followers, who support the free software movement (and object, to some extent, to the open source movement), suggest that "FLOSS" is a better neutral term than "FOSS". They don't use this term themselves. They are not neutral, they think the phrase "free software" is better than "open source" (the two mean the same anyways, so they pick "free software").
They just think those who, unlike them, wish to be neutral between the two terms should say "FLOSS" instead of "FOSS".
There is some truth to the fact that the free software movement is more copyleft-oriented, but both the GPL (copyleft) and the MIT (non-copyleft) licenses are unquestionably free, open source, FLOSS and FOSS.
You're probably already familiar with what I said, but let me spam my article on the topic anyways: https://www.functorfault.net/posts/free-software/

2026-01-15 06:07:07 UTC

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Spaces only for alignment.
But alignment is actually rarely needed.

2026-01-14 00:09:31 UTC

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I'm not against the GPLs, but one shouldn't use a license without having first read it in full.

2026-01-14 00:07:58 UTC

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On this note, Minds is mostly FLOSS too (the exception being some not very important external dependencies).

2026-01-14 00:07:00 UTC

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> less toxic than X
That's such a low bar, poison is less toxic than X.

2026-01-14 00:06:44 UTC

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I think if one is to use the Fediverse, one should favor a free speech platform, since their account would be tied to the whims of the admin.
An example is Minds, which actually used to support Nostr, but then moved to ActivityPub.
My take is it's actually smart to use more than one platform at once. Using Nostr doesn't preclude other options.

2026-01-14 00:04:42 UTC

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> although it forces tabs
Based, tabs absolutely rule.

2026-01-14 00:04:14 UTC

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OP uses the Apache 2.0 license which requires attribution potentially in a few different forms along with stating changes.

2026-01-14 00:03:12 UTC

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> I'd have gladly chosen it, except that it doesn't explicitly cover patents.
It does: https://opensource.com/article/18/3/patent-grant-mit-license
> If this is part of the difference between FOSS and this new term "FLOSS",
It's not.
There is absolutely no difference in meaning whatsoever, none at all.
The "F" in both is for "free" as in "free software". The "L" in the second is simply to *clarify* that the F means "libre", not "free of charge". It's the case either way, the L is just supposed to clarify it.
Non-copyleft permissive licenses and copyleft licenses all qualify as "FOSS", "FLOSS", "free software" and "open source" licenses.
The MIT license is a FOSS license and a FLOSS license. The GPL is a FOSS license and a FLOSS license.
This isn't, of course, to say copyleft and permissive licenses are the same. They are not, that's why we have the word "copyleft" to describe the difference.
If you prefer non-copyleft licenses for your software, that's totally fine, of course. I'm not trying to argue for or against copyleft. But there was never a difference between "FOSS" and "FLOSS" in meaning.

2026-01-13 23:56:22 UTC

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Nobody believes energy, frequency and vibration are nonsense. They are basic concepts that belong to the domain of physics.
Charlatans use those same words to spread nonsense.

2026-01-12 00:18:54 UTC

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Other social media are bad in other ways.
The issue is Nostr actually needs to be *better*. Not just on the same level.

2026-01-11 23:50:24 UTC

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It's still not as bad as it used to be. The price didn't need to change.
It was all "Nostr, Nostr, ZAP ZAP ZAP. ZAP!!!! Lightning. The future, this is the future. Signal, not noise. ZAP! Bitcooooooooooooooin. Freedom tech (from an Apple device). BE WEIRD, BE WEIRD, BE WEIRD! Pictures of lasers from eyes. AI-generated slop. Bitcoin!!!".

2026-01-11 05:58:10 UTC

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Overhyping AI is typical of those who've just learned about AI less than 5 years ago.

2026-01-11 05:53:31 UTC

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Actually I think this was a very valid criticism on Nostr, but now Nostr isn't nearly as much about Bitcoin as it used to be.
Much content is still about Nostr itself, but that's not necessarily as big an issue and is also true of other platforms, although to a lesser extent.

2026-01-08 04:26:26 UTC

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On Twitter I follow this guideline, generally.
If I only followed people I agree with, then I would create an eco chamber for myself.
One may suggest to do the opposite: to only follow those I most disagree with. People I most disagree with, however, are often either flat Earthers or Nazis. I can be exposed to those ideas, but, pragmatically, there isn't much time I can reasonably dedicate to those ideas and I don't want my whole timeline to be brainrot.
I follow people based on positive interactions and, as is human, for better or worse, I consider agreement as positive and disagreement as negative in making that determination. However, I do not unfollow based on disagreement.
If I agree with someone on something, it surely doesn't mean I agree with them on everything else. So this allows you to have a widely diverse feed, politically and ideologically, without your whole timeline turning into brainrot.

2026-01-08 04:21:35 UTC

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My take, when it comes to the line between good bots and spambots, is that bots should not interact with users unprompted.
A bot which mentions users, misuses hashtags or is not properly marked as such via NIP-24 should be considered a spambot. A bot which is marked as such and only replies to users if prompted to do so, in order to offer some kind of service, should be regarded as a good bot.
As for pornography, my take is that it should be allowed except when it's illegal or spam. It's just like any other kind of content one may disagree with. Requiring that it be marked as sensitive via NIP-36
can make sense.
(Of course, your relay, your rules, this are just my suggestions on the topic).

2026-01-08 02:26:13 UTC

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Nice, running public relays is a great way to contribute!
Does the relay have any content policy?
I think more relays should (especially permissive ones help the free speech goal overall).

2026-01-06 03:55:30 UTC

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Thank you!

2026-01-04 04:50:50 UTC

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> Get the last word in, tell them they are going to be muted and then mute them
This is by far one of the lamest things you can do on social media (Nostr included).
It's the Internet equivalent of plugging your ears while screaming things so you can't hear the response. If you are interested enough in the conversation to "get the last word in" and the reason they are the "last words" is that your ears are plugged, you have lost that debate in the least respectable and most childish way possible.
Being muted by randos on Twitter on Nostr isn't a loss in any sense. The only value in telling someone they are getting muted is for their own sake (so they know why they won't receive further responses in that thread).

2026-01-01 06:14:48 UTC

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cc: @npub1wp2…hpv0

2025-12-31 23:00:00 UTC

Happy Public Domain Day 2026!!!
https://www.functorfault.net/posts/pdd-2026/

2025-12-31 03:51:38 UTC

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Followed, specifically for not having a lightning address set up.

2025-12-31 03:49:20 UTC

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What kind of point is this? Anyone can make AI slop.

2025-12-31 03:48:32 UTC

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It can however make sense to generate abstract images that look good (just gradients or shapes), but that can be done, and better, by programs written for that purpose, rather than AI-based image generators.

2025-12-31 03:47:14 UTC

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They are absolutely not expected to have a cover image, you can just publish articles without cover images.

2025-12-31 03:44:23 UTC

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I do not hate the wide and nobile field of AI, a field of computer science old nearly as modern computer science itself.
I do detest OpenAI, the fact that some idiots actually believe their shit, the fact that morons think "vibe coding" is as good as knowing how to code, the whole aesthetics of AI-generated images (generated by the tasteless), those who ruin social media by posting AI-generated text, the whole "in the next 6 months" that has been going on for years and, more generally, the whole recent "AI" business.
As usual, researchers do something good, but businesses make it shit. Money ruins everything.

2025-12-31 03:38:04 UTC

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Personally I do care, in the sense that, everything else being equal, I'd use software written by hand rather than written by AI. This is especially true for open source software.
Software programs are works of literature. If a program has been written by humans, it's pretty clear what the "source code" is and what should be shared. We know it's intelligible to humans because a human wrote it.
But what if a program has been generated by an illiterate vibe coder? In that case it may go to production without anyone ever understanding the program in full. The prompt isn't source code either, since models behave randomly and may generate different programs with the same input.
To this, you should add that many "vibe coders" depend on specific models offered by specific companies through an API. This effectively adds a dependency on those companies for the development of the program.
It matters to have people that understand programs and, for that, it makes sense to prefer programs that have been written and continue to be written by hand.
The use of prompts in natural language is not akin to using high level languages. Natural language is inherently imprecise, while all programming languages, no matter how high level, communicate ideas precisely and are formal languages.

2025-12-29 02:49:44 UTC

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It depends on what you value more.
You have more right to portability than in any (other) platform (it's trivial to pull your events from many relays).
Whether those who access your data will use it for illegitimate purposes isn't a technical question. Doing so would be illegal regardless of the technology.

2025-12-28 05:53:31 UTC

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In that case, thanks feds for running relays, we need relays.

2025-12-28 05:52:50 UTC

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You don't even need to run a relay, you can just fetch from other relays continuously.

2025-12-28 05:51:36 UTC

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Nostr is better for data mining than practically anything that ever existed.

2025-12-28 05:51:15 UTC

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Privacy isn't about secrecy, it's about ownership of personal data.
Because Nostr gives you more control, it gives you more privacy. Does it give you more secrecy? No, unless you remain anonymous, which his account is not (he may have a separate anonymous account for all we know. That we can't know is the point).

2025-12-28 05:49:21 UTC

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Some clients truly are the Internet Explorer of Nostr: just do random undocumented shit and hope other clients adapt.

2025-12-27 05:26:28 UTC

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They are the ones pushing AI shit none asked for, they don't care about users and they won't do this.
Would many ask for it? Of course. Many asked them to reintroduce dislikes, one of the best features of YouTube, but YouTube didn't do so.
There is a lot of really high-quality content on YouTube. It's up to us to find and share high-quality content and stop watching shit.
For example, there is a lot of truly good educational content, both well-known (the usual: 3Blue1Brown, PBS Space Time and a lot more), but also many lesser known ones that are very good (channels explaining how some things in video games work, made by game developers, for example).
There are however a lot of """educational""" channels that are just straight-up slop and misinformation. There have been for longer than this idiotic surge of AI slop. The usual flashy "top 10 things you didn't know" that are just 10 things you couldn't have known because they are false. Or just random "facts" written to make idiots feel smart.
For entertainment, it's kind of the same thing: there are genuinely good and funny channels and brain-rot channels that somehow manage to catch our attention for hours without being genuinely funny or even pleasant, like a hack of the brain.
We truly need to promote high quality and call out brainrot, in all forms, especially videos.
As for a genuine AI filter, you can't actually build one and the existing ones are scam (which I hear even some teachers and professors are relying on, I think they should be fired).

2025-12-27 05:14:44 UTC

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I wonder why the fuck Primal does this.
I wish clients would stop misusing tags. If they have a special usecase for a tag, they should just make up their own tag, instead of misusing existing ones.

2025-12-27 04:45:04 UTC

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Your note data contains "r" tags pointing to relays, despite your text containing no link to any relay.
I'm not aware of anything in the "standard" this is supposed to mean, what client are you using that does this?

2025-12-25 05:50:58 UTC

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cc: @npub17ky…g0pz, @npub1wp2…hpv0 and all other FLOSS advocates.

2025-12-24 23:00:00 UTC

Ode to Blender.
https://www.functorfault.net/posts/ode-to-blender/
#b3d #Blender #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Floss #Christmas

2025-12-24 01:51:24 UTC

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They actually replied to me!
They told me we'll have to wait none knows how long for the licenses to be evaluated (BSD-1-clause is *clearly* FLOSS IMO), but they replied.

2025-12-23 05:53:36 UTC

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INAL, but note that patents don't need to be reversed (they have to be public) and that reverse engineering doesn't need to infringe copyright.
So do reverse engineer them: what you'll find is not patented (if it were it couldn't be secret) and if it's limited to ideas, not implementations, is not subject to copyrights.
Reverse engineering isn't illegal in on itself. In fact, some (mild) legal exceptions even exist to support it (they may not be as strong as they should be).

2025-12-20 05:47:59 UTC

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I wrote to the licensing team.
I suggested that they review the CeCILL 2.1 license (they reviewed 2.0 and approved it as free and GPL-compatible), as well as the 1-clause BSD (which is clearly free).

2025-12-20 00:33:50 UTC

I just wrote to the FSF, so I'll wait a few years now.

2025-12-20 00:11:44 UTC

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Isn't proton just PGP that you pay for?

2025-12-20 00:10:33 UTC

Hey, @npub1q3s…d26p, what is the "ping" message for on the Ditto relay?
I know the client is supposed to reply "pong", but I don't get the utility of it.

2025-12-17 04:51:48 UTC

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> This is why I cleanly define atheism as an absolute negative claim on the existence of God.
So you redefine your opponent's position? Is this how you win?
I define your position as asserting there absolutely cannot be a teapot orbiting Earth. Can you prove your position, which I just defined?

2025-12-17 04:46:38 UTC

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Actually people deserve to watch what they want without authoritarians having a say in it.
That's why Nostr exists, too.

2025-12-16 02:08:52 UTC

@npub1wp2…hpv0 and @npub17ky…g0pz, what do you think about this?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kode/kode-dot-the-all-in-one-pocket-size-maker-device
I asked them and, while they are not sure about the specific, the licenses will be free and open source for both hardware and software.

2025-12-13 03:11:40 UTC

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Why does it matter if a project is cooperative?

2025-12-12 06:00:44 UTC

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Cryptography was absolute fucking garbage until recent decades, precisely because of this.

2025-12-12 05:03:38 UTC

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Then we would no longer have encryption and therefore Nostr.

2025-12-11 05:32:27 UTC

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I hope it doesn't happen to Blender.
Ton will leave leadership in 2026. So far the foundation has been managed incredibly well, it's an incredibly good project aligned with the interest of users.

2025-12-10 00:39:37 UTC

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I already thought coding is awesome, you don't need to sell it to me.

2025-12-10 00:16:12 UTC

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I actually wouldn't sacrifice a field almost as old as modern computer science itself just to have less slop on social media.

2025-12-10 00:14:14 UTC

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The non-AI based denoisers (which Blender used before the current one from Intel) absolutely suck in comparison.
The current denoiser saves a lot of time and energy while preserving quality.

2025-12-10 00:11:29 UTC

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By "AI" do we mean what the industry currently means or all all AI (that would include the denoiser in Blender, since it's based on neural networks).

2025-12-10 00:10:17 UTC

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I think maybe it's not coding that sucks, it's work that sucks.
Money can ruin almost anything that it touches.

2025-12-09 23:57:30 UTC

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> OpenAI, Anthropic, and the Linux Foundation
So 3 of the worst organizations in existence.

2025-12-09 23:57:03 UTC

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> I think coding does suck tho. Like 99% of what people are getting paid to do is total bullshit
A lot of code isn't written to get paid.
Many other activities are almost exclusively done because they are useful (monetarily or otherwise), but many write code for fun.

2025-12-09 03:50:53 UTC

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Actually in this case the author is known and can be bullied out of Nostr.

2025-12-08 05:57:52 UTC

https://github.com/VectorPrivacy/Vector/issues/30