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2026-02-20 17:21:04 UTC

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2026-02-09 23:42:07 UTC

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I'm all in on IRC, RSS and static websites at this point. Let’s bring back AltaVista, CGI counters and guestbooks (all with heavy tar-pitting to survive the AI enshittification) and keep the human internet alive like it was in the 90s.

2026-02-09 23:24:59 UTC

One more interesting feature for the brave people keeping their Haven instances up to date with master.
You can now export to and import from JSONL files. In the next version, the cloud backup will be updated to use JSONL by default so that folks can switch the underlying DB without losing data :)
https://github.com/bitvora/haven/blob/master/docs/jsonl.md
As always, please report any bugs on GitHub.
#haven #relay #jsonl #export #import #ownYourData

2026-02-07 16:18:09 UTC

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No problem, Utxo. Thanks for the zap, and I hope you are doing well!
I’m also working on improved backup and restore to finally move v1 into maintenance mode, and will reach out so we can decide what we are going to do about v2. Life got in the way since we last spoke but things are slowly starting to progress again.

2026-02-07 16:08:26 UTC

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CC: @nprofile…fzvp and @nprofile…vvjh

2026-02-07 16:07:38 UTC

Howdy folks, if any Haven users out there want to test the latest updates on master before I cut a release, this one is all about Web of Trust settings.
Haven’s built-in WoT model has been moved behind an interface and can now be easily replaced by alternative algorithms. For example, I’m using my own ownertrust model. It can also be adapted to use external sources, such as calling one of the fancy WoT tools out there.
Haven default WoT mofel can now
1. Be periodically refreshed at configurable predefined intervals (default 24h), thanks to @nprofile…ecm8 (idea by @nprofile…fj80).
2. Allow you to choose your WoT "depth" for the Inbox and Chat relays
0 - Public relay, no write restrictions (not recommended)
1 - Only the relay owner can write to their relay (for the extra antisocial folk or when your relay is under attack and you just don’t want to deal with it)
2 - Pubkeys directly followed by the relay owner can write to Inbox and Chat
3 - Friends of friends with a configurable minimum number of common followers (Haven’s old default behaviour)
I also took the time to fix several bugs and race conditions in the default WoT algorithm that caused Kind 3 events to be counted multiple times, inflating the WoT numbers. As a consequence, Depth 3 should now be stricter, especially for folks with small follow lists and high values for `WOT_MINIMUM_FOLLOWERS`.
For further details, have a look at https://github.com/bitvora/haven/blob/master/docs/wot.md
As with all new code, there be dragons. Feel free to report bugs on Haven’s issue tracker.
#haven #wot #relay

2025-12-29 23:08:21 UTC

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Bitvora didn't spam my relays, didn't try to bribe devs, or steal money from new Nostr users. Nobody ever complained to me that they received their very first SATS on a Bitvora wallet and them were told that they can't use it for anything other than paying for a "self-custodial" wallet subscription. Bitvora didn’t drive new Nostr users (and often new to BTC as well) away thinking that the whole thing is a huge crypto scam.
I've seen you honour your commitments to your clients and invest countless hours and resources into building and hosting FOSS tech that has moved the state of Nostr forward, while humbly giving all credit upstream and dealing with all criticism that come your way fairly. So, for all that this eternal Nostr outsider opinion is worth, I salute you.
And I'm sure you will still be building great things long after all the current VC money and grants currently moving Nostr dry up.
About the source, aye, not much of a mystery. To be fair, they used an alt, likely to avoid screenshots leaking. But relatively easy to recognise. I'm not saying this to out anyone either, just sharing it publicly because I don't give a flying rat's arse anymore. Other than my own disappointment with some folks, no harm done.
About immigrants, agreed. But the obsession with a few bad apples and refugees on dinghies, while enthusiastically supporting the very system that is sending Western civilisation down the toilet, makes me sad. It goes beyond shallowness. It's just the same old agenda of weaponised hate to distract people from the mess that a bunch of entitled octogenarians and a few sociopathic billionaires are making so that they can leech for just a little longer.

2025-12-29 15:18:01 UTC

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Agreed. I’m all for people unionising and for businesses being punished for union busting. I’m also against people being forced into unionising or being extorted into paying membership fees without real representation. Funnily enough, this is a posture that tends to annoy authoritarians on both the left and the right, as it makes too much sense. Unions can be a good thing, and when they are a good thing, people don’t need to be forced into unionising. Ask Brazilian finance professionals or US SAG-AFTRA members if they want to give up their union membership.

2025-12-29 14:56:20 UTC

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Thanks for talking some sense and baiting some of the bad apples on Nostr to out themselves, @nprofile…6u4e. Nostr content is getting so tiresome...
Fun fact: while you were taking a break, I got some heated DMs basically calling me a hypocrite for collaborating with you and Bitvora while calling this shit out on Nostr. Apparently, they took you for one of the racist / North American MAGA / authoritarian-dressed-as-libertarian sheep on Nostr. And Bitvora for one of the crappy, spammy Lightning service providers on Nostr (after I blocked a couple from spamming the relays I’m running and returned a few of their bribery attempts).
For the folks who need a reason for me to volunteer my time (why would anyone need a reason to maintain good software?), that’s why. Don’t take a good man, a builder, a second-generation Canadian, for one of the low-IQ, xenophobic racists loitering here.
Signed: a Brazilian-born, UK citizen who has contributed more to this country in the past ten years than all of the Tommy Robinson followers on Nostr combined. I never claimed any benefits, not even during unemployment (and yes, things got pretty rough for a while). I built two businesses from the ground up, volunteered quite a bit, and was subjected to the 60% UK tax trap for several years while paying extra fees like the NHS surcharge. Tax-wise, I am sustaining an average of at least half a dozen of Tommy Robinson’s “patriots” on the dole while they are busy coming to London to riot and paint roundabouts red. The only thing I have to say to the "patriots" out there is... Piss off! Stop complaining about the immigrants putting food on your table and get good. Real patriots should, you know, do something for their country other than seeding hate and trying to start riots.
You folks voted for Brexit. You folks did nothing while the corrupt politicians you voted for sold out. You folks let private equity take control of the country, including real estate. You are the ones about to elect Farage and swallow Musk’s fascist rhetoric of “violence is coming for you” while letting the US and Big Tech aristocracies weaken Europe and ruin our way of life. I have nothing to do with the UK’s decline. You do. Stop blaming immigrants for the consequences of your choices. Also, be careful what you wish for. Unlike you, I have real mobility (hint: moving abroad is nowhere near as easy as you think), so please take some responsibility and stop destroying the country that I love and that you are trapped in. Take some responsibility before it is too late.
PS: As a very white person (yes, there are lots of people of European descent in Brazil, mostly children and grandchildren of European immigrants fleeing their countries during difficult times, so do remember that tables turn), I can say that “Arabs”, “Asian”, and “Brown” people are doing very well, thank you. In fact, most British “patriots” I know would move to places like Dubai and Qatar without a second glance if they had the opportunity to.

2025-12-28 15:46:02 UTC

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Lol. I'm... Increasingly disappointed and less invested in Nostr. So, not a hostage, but lacking incentive (more than financial incentive, if I'm being totally honest Nostr culture and content is just not for me... I don't think I'll be on NIP-01 for much longer, although I'm still interested in Alexandria, GRASP and a few "other things").

2025-12-28 15:27:27 UTC

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Ah, fair. I haven't seen a more general "mirror button" in any other clients besides NoStrudel, only in Blossom-specific management utilities. One way or another, mirroring your own images or someone else's flows the same way in the backend. At the end of the day, it is a REST endpoint that the client calls, and both servers have to be mindful of what each other expects. One missing header on the origin server can be enough for the destination server to reject the media, so you are basically hostage to each dev interpretation of the specs or even of things beyond the specs. Thankfully, there is no such thing in IPFS, as it is basically torrent-style P2P stuff under the hood.

2025-12-28 14:49:02 UTC

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Primal did, but compatibility between Blossom servers is still a bit hit and miss as some fair play is required between clients and both servers involved.

2025-12-28 14:45:01 UTC

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I think I did play with a direct DHT Client as well as a cache-in-between the Blossom server and a local HTTP to IPFS Gateway with some aggressive catching headers (which gave me the best results as when the CDN evicts media, more often than not the bridge hits the cache instead of IPFS), but I'll revisit it for sure. And also play with your stuff, as if IPFS is enough Blossom becomes unnecessary.

2025-12-28 14:26:03 UTC

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Great stuff. I built a private Blossom to IPFS gateway (Khatru based, despite the fact that the framework author does not like IPFS). My main problem so far is that when my CDN evicts media, latency increases substantially, even when I am acting directly as an IPFS host and gateway. It also seems to be a bit more bandwidth hungry, which is not a big deal.
But aye, in terms of redistribution and redundancy it is ahead of Blossom, especially as most Blossom implementations out there take liberties with the specs and are not compatible with each other, nor even between clients. I totally gave up on BUD-04 mirroring, as client and Blossom server devs break compatibility faster than I can fix stuff on my side.

2025-12-23 18:37:07 UTC

Hey, all of the remaining half a dozen real humans still using NIP-01, just passing by to wish you all Happy Holidays!
Yes, I’m being inclusive despite celebrating Christmas myself, so… leave a comment that likely won’t be delivered, and even if it does, won’t be replied to, so, in good Nostr fashion, you'll never know. See you next year... Maybe?
https://youtu.be/4uymCMVXgqs

2025-12-16 23:21:07 UTC

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Thank you, and welcome to Nostr (assuming that you are new)

2025-12-16 10:14:36 UTC

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The main problem is that a lot of Lightning, ecash, etc. wallets allow you to associate an nsec to unlock the wallet. Not many people pasting their nsecs into random vibecoded apps are security-conscious enough to use a separate Nostr key, so if one of those vibecoded apps leaks nsecs, you can pretty much scan the respective lud16 for half a dozen popular wallet domains and, more likely than not, hit the BTC jackpot.

2025-12-15 23:53:00 UTC

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Yes, this is the nostrconnect (client initiate) flow. Clicking and copying and pasting the nostrconnect token is ultimately the same thing. Neither work for me unfortunately (the flow where I first create a bunkerurl in Amber works)

2025-12-15 23:31:49 UTC

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Aye. Android background processing is a pain and nostr pool connection management is broken enough by itself. Restarting Androix didnt work but @nprofile…xcpk managed to release a test version that partially fixed things for bunkerurl flows (as long I don't use nostrconnect URLs and rawdog my nsec into Amethyst so that it doesn't hoard Amber resources things are working, or rather, back at acceptable levels of brokeness :()

2025-12-15 22:58:09 UTC

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4.0.4 works to login with Citrine + a Amber generated Bunker URL, I still haven't found a version that works for me for nostrconnect URL flows. But it used to for sure (can't say which version exactly as I haven't updated Amber for a while)

2025-12-15 22:51:10 UTC

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Also, on jumble I'm still getting: "mute: no one was listening to your ephemeral event and it wasn't handled in any way, it was ignored"

2025-12-15 22:49:24 UTC

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Ok, if I kill Amethyst, Jumble and Nosotros gets unstuck, so maybe Amethyst is hoarding all of Amber's capacity. Still can't log in with thr nostrconnect flow though.

2025-12-15 22:46:50 UTC

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So, with this version I can log in using Citrine and the bunker url flow, but still can't with the nostrconnect flow. Amber window now closes, but it seems like things get sorta stuck after that, I.e. clients keep struggling to load timelines, etc.

2025-12-15 22:44:07 UTC

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Nah, nsec is like the password for your Bitwarden or 1password, it is much more than just a password for an individual social media website. And if you have a lightining address it is like throwing your credit cards in the mix as well, you simply shouldn't use it on experimental clients (which is most of Nostr). Yes, reusing your Gmail password on vibecoded sites is bad, and this exactly why people shouldn't do it. The problem is the path not to do it in Nostr is broken.
TL;DR on deVine is that press and some big timer YouTube channels like Linus Tdch ztips got wind of it and a gazillion folks tried to join at once. Basically too many users / too heavy of a worjload for existing relay software and available relays. There was a room with the usual folks trying to provision relays for it (Gleason et all) but if you don't have the infrastructure for the normies to flock in all of the hype is wasted.

2025-12-15 22:21:33 UTC

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Yes, Amethyst is getting stuck over and over again, even when displaying events from my timeline.

2025-12-15 22:14:24 UTC

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Will do. Seems like I can load your message on Amethyst but can't DM back. And 0xChat is crashing on me, but I'll try it and reply back to you here.

2025-12-15 22:08:01 UTC

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We unfortunately have 200 other problems to solve besides NIP-47, starting with Nostr content and the attitude towards non-bitcoiners, but this is a big one for sure. I don’t think most folks are ready to move to totally ephemeral pubkeys, and reusing nsecs across experimental, increasingly vibecoded clients is just... dangerous... Nostr really needs to get the basics done right. As a community, we have wasted so many opportunities to scale Nostr already.
I joined about a year and a half ago, during one of the many huge waves of people quitting Twitter. Since then we have lost at least three other opportunities to grow. The last one was the hype around @nprofile…62p3’s deVine stuff. Every time one of the non-BTC Twitter experiments shows some promise, Nostr seems to crap its pants.
We really, really need to get the basics right for Nostr to have any chance. I don’t think lightning will keep striking the same place over and over again, and we may not get many more opportunities to make Nostr scale.

2025-12-15 21:55:12 UTC

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They could... We could. ActivityPub folks did it with as little or even less resources than Nostr, and their protocol was just as bad in the early days, constantly self DDOising. Nostr is at what, 10k to 20k active daily users? Peaks of a few dozen kind 1 notes per second maybe? If the underlying architecture was sound this wouldn't be resource intensive and hard to serve at all.
I could even argue that ActivityPub architecture is much more complex than a bunch of signed json payloads over websockets. If it can scale so does Nostr. The difference, other than time, is that tbey have a more mature and diverse community of FOSS devs there. Also, there isn't an overly dominant community there like the BTC folks on Nostr. I feel like a lot of folks here want it to remain a tiny BTC Twitter bubble.

2025-12-15 21:04:07 UTC

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This one seems very likely to be a bug on Amber by elimination (i.e. everything works together as long as Amber isn’t in the flow). Nak can act as a bunker on its own, but it’s a major hassle to use it on mobile, as it means having my VPN on and SSHing into my linux box to retrieve bunker URLs when I’m outside my network. Plus, running Amber and Citrine locally is the only way I know of for remote signing to work even relatively well, as NIP-46 is extremely sensitive to latency. Even the latency of a WireGuard VPN is enough to degrade the experience, with Amethyst becoming absolutely sluggish, almost unusable.

2025-12-15 20:54:44 UTC

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Just in time for Nostr to shine, if it wasn’t completely broken as well (not due to age verification, literally broken). We could be onboarding Aussies and other age verification refugees if things were working. Instead, I still need to spend a whole hour troubleshooting Nostr and downgrade my mobile signer just to be able to log in 😭. Basically, the Nostr experience seems to be decaying instead of improving.
Sorry for the negativity here (nothing to do with you), but it is getting hard for me to believe that Nostr is going anywhere

2025-12-15 20:38:07 UTC

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So, restarting didn't work, downgrading to 4.0.4 worked (sorta).
I can login using the bunker flow and Citrine, it pops up an error about "mute kind something something" but eventually it works.
https://haven.accioly.social/d3d7328693e477f8c03e418a6a431a0a8d0b481cb0c7cd115369c71878edad25.mp4
But even 4.0.4 isn't letting me login with a standard nostrconnect flow which is the only option in some clients out here.
https://haven.accioly.social/9e2f6067c536d147c04a62c75a240c104d8b6b40bf1840bda278caf7735f2958.mp4
With 4.0.4 I can also log in to Amethyst.
IMO there's definitely a regression here, or rather several, as Amber used to work even with nostrconnect flows for me. Unfortunately I don't have another device to test this. What do you want to do here? Happy to drop this as I'm not even really using Nostr that much anymore, but if you want me to do anything to help you troubleshoot this, happy to DM you logs, grant you remote access or do any other tests you require.

2025-12-15 19:54:19 UTC

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This is a Samsung S24 Ultra, bog standard normie phone. No VPNs, no Tor, as vanilla as it gets.

2025-12-15 19:52:46 UTC

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And using any intermediate relay... Including Citrine on the same device...

2025-12-15 19:52:06 UTC

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How is it working just fine if I can't login to any application using any client in any browser? 🤣

2025-12-15 19:46:33 UTC

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Also, now that I installed the fresh APK I can't log in on Amethyst either, it loads Amber and gets stuck in this screen, even after I force stop both apps.

2025-12-15 19:43:21 UTC

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Nothing useful on the logs (at least for my yes). Not working with Chrome, not working after force stopping Amber, not working after fully removing it and installing a fresh APK. And again, with nak it works (including on Firefox, with all clients and all relays)

2025-12-15 19:20:24 UTC

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It is unfortunately not working for me at all. I've also tried to create a Bunker pointing to local Citrine (ws://localhost:4869), same issue.
https://haven.accioly.social/5955bbb6c2e026ceb3ccd47eb0bd29a5b5c8458f02bb067d3cd46daae3475047.mp4

2025-12-15 18:15:19 UTC

@nprofile…lr0g, apologies for pinging you directly over Kind 1 (most folks are not getting my NIP-17 messages). I think something is off with the latest Amber version (4.0.5). I cannot log in to https://dev.nosotros.app or https://jumble.social, Amber appears not to be responding. I've tried both the bunker and nostrconnect flows.
Other than using my own relays for auth, I have tried using wss://nwc.nostr1.com (by @nprofile…f5g6) which always been reliable), as well as https://relay.nsec.app/ (which is unfortunately a bit hit or miss).
I can login just fine with my fork of nak, so it looks like a problem with Amber rather than the clients or the relays.

2025-12-13 20:25:57 UTC

Just sharing this on Nostr, as it's a great book by one of the nicest and most knowledgeable people I have known in my many decades of software development. Even if you have no interest in Java or Eclipse Collections, this is still an amazing book, and the EBook version is going to be free on Amazon for a few days. I bought the special hardcover edition in colour earlier this year and love it.
Amazon US: https://a.co/d/0RbAImC
Amazon UK: https://amzn.eu/d/1tZutx6
Amazon DE: https://amzn.eu/d/gNyelDw
Amazon JP: https://amzn.asia/d/3kHmMmt
Apparently, Amazon BR doesn't have the Kindle version, but double-check closer to the date. And if you live somewhere else, check your country's Amazon website.
#devstr #bookstr #freebiestr
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Original on Mastodon: @[email protected] 🔗 https://accioly.social/users/anthony/statuses/115714073684241254
If you haven't done so, go grab your copy. The book goes beyond Eclipse Collections, offering great ideas on how to categorise functions and documentation, how to build fluent, intuitive, testable, and easy-to-evolve APIs in the open and much more. It's filled with decades of knowledge absorbed by the author, from the early days of OOP and Smalltalk to modern, expressive functional/OO hybrid Java that would surprise even the most sceptical programmer.
#EclipseCollections #Java #Free #Book

2025-12-12 13:41:05 UTC

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Thanks for the support @nprofile…j5mv!

2025-12-12 13:17:37 UTC

BUMPing this again (90's internet forum vibe).
#nevent1q…zs4v

2025-12-11 16:36:26 UTC

Data folks and math-inclined devs. I'm looking for an Open Source library for Optimization and Linear Algebra. Kotlin preferred, but can be in any other JVM language compatible with Kotlin (Java, Clojure, Scala, etc). It needs to support arbitrary-precision math (e.g., BigDecimal) and be able to scale horizontally to solve millions of problems in parallel for short bursts (not necessarily HPC scale). Ideally something I can AOT-compile with GraalVM and trigger tens of thousands of serverless functions in parallel, or quickly spin up a small k8s cluster, schedule a few million jobs, and then tear the cluster down. Throughput at scale beats raw performance for my use case.
So far I’ve come across Klan and Multik for linear algebra; Kotpim and Kotlin-MIP for optimization.
I have no practical experience with any of them and no idea about AOT compilation performance and throughput (this is a must, because after the MVP the plan is to distribute those computations across a gazillion personal devices, e.g., mobile phones, Raspberry Pis, and even embedded devices that may not easily run a JVM and some with less than 1 GB RAM).
Any pointers? I’m also fine with non-permissive licenses (e.g., AGPL).
#FOSS #Kotlin #devstr #asknostr

2025-12-10 21:48:42 UTC

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Your original metaphor is good and basically correct. Still, when you go to your favourite stationery shop to buy a greeting card, they most likely bought it from a supplier who licensed work from real artists to design their cards. Augmented code is the artist using AI to do part of the work. Of course mass-produced cards are not as personal as writing your own, nor as flexible, but they are still finished products created by artists who cared about their craft behind the scenes.
It is different from asking a model to write the card for you. It is different from using some vibecoded app to generate cards for you. Even if mass produced, there were humans in the loop who knew what they were doing.
Now imagine a three-year-old selecting a greeting card without really knowing how to read, parroting things that make him sound smart and capable, not fully understanding the occasion or context of the card, or even what is appropriate in general. Now, beyond whatever personal info is necessary for selecting the card and writing a message on your behalf, you also have to trust him with your credit card details, your name, address, and the data of the person you plan to send the card to. You would be telling the three-year-old to drive to the shop, buy a card, customise it and ship it for you. This is slop, and slop is dangerous. It may sound exaggerated, but a lot of people vibecoding are the equivalent of three-year-olds who cannot read in terms of software engineering. And the users of the Vibecoded Slop Greeting Card Generator GPT are trusting the tools and processes these folks are putting together. It is not about the end result that the user might be able to verify, but about everything happening behind the scenes and the trust required to grant the privileges and data the slop-generating machine needs to perform all the intermediate steps, many of which you cannot check. All this happens in a world full of smart people ready to exploit a naive unsupervised three-year-old while he does all the heavy lifting for you. And at the end of the day, the question is: do you really want to trust the three-year-old with enough information to do this task for you? If you ask me, no, I really don't. And even if they make the three-year-old smarter, I still would not use him like this. I will buy the card myself, help the shop owner make a living, keep the artist employed, keep my credit card in my wallet and the recipient’s information to myself. I will also keep my brain well trained enough to write a customised message of my own. I might perhaps use the three-year-old to proofread my message.
Augmented code is like the artist who knows what he is doing and can fully verify the results telling the three-year-old to paint something red. If the three-year-old gets it wrong, the artist will take the time to either correct it or make the child redo it. The task is smaller in scope and commanded by people who can verify and fix mistakes. Ane most of people that should be using these tools are not impressed with them so much as worried about how other people are using it and the consequences of that. Hopefully my position makes sense.

2025-12-10 20:00:55 UTC

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Nice drawing, and I love the Jetstream (Using Lite Touch ink myself)

2025-12-10 19:55:21 UTC

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Store-bought cards don't leak your nsec, PII, payment data, biometrics, IP, access patterns, and so on. Also, I don't know of any good supply chain attack that would turn a greetings card into an infection vector, while it isn’t even challenging to poison AI tools to inject whatever malicious payload I want behind the backs of vibecoders.
This "convenience" can unfortunately become quite expensive for end users. I won't touch vibecoded apps without reviewing the code. And when I try to review code generated by pure vibecoders, it usually turns into a mess of confusing spaghetti and multi-hundred-line functions that are impossible to understand. I also have zero trust in the people who built such software to operate it correctly. So, it is a notfor me.
I'm not trying to throw shade at vibecoding, but I would advise users to be extra careful where they stick their D...ata if you know what I mean.
PS: Augmented code, where real engineers use AI tools to support their work, but actually know what they are doing, is a totally different game altogether and I'm optimistic about it. But this is not vibecoding at all (and the result isn't slop, is a codebase that someone like me could take over and mantain manually) and I’d argue that the current gains of using AI coding tools are still debatable. I often find them slowing me down more often than speeding things up.

2025-12-10 07:41:56 UTC

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2025-12-10 07:41:13 UTC

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Aye, I generally watch his videos to annoy myself. But credit where credit is due. To someone that pedals AI as much as he does, he is conscious about it.

2025-12-09 23:29:13 UTC

I found myself in total agreement with Theo for once.
Quality software: Open source, mostly one or two folks, passion project, either already wealthy or deserving to earn way more than they do with what they are building. In summary: people who care about what they are building.
Not quality: Rewrite in Rust instead of fixing what was wrong with the software to begin with, market fit dictated by POs and other non-technical people who would not even be using the product if it was not their job, AI slop, hype to obtain more funding. In summary: people who care about money and trends.
The first group of people do not rock the boat, they build it. The second group? Very enthusiastic. Way more likeable than the first group. Also, they are the problem.
https://youtu.be/FI5ba4RRE8U

2025-12-09 13:39:33 UTC

Hey Nostr folks, this one isn't about Nostr or Bitcoins, but if anyone feels like watching some virtual Ignite talks, the Aspiring Speakers group will be hosting a free event open to all next week.
Also, the plan for 2026 is to have a regular mix of lightning talks and Ignite talks, so if you feel like talking about your favourite freedom tech, DM me and I can sort something out for our next event.
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🎶 It's the last Aspiring Speakers lightning talk of the year! 🎶
Join the Aspiring Speakers community online on 16 December at 12:00 pm GMT for our first Aspiring Speakers Ignite talks.
It's free and open to all. See you there!
https://luma.com/egw6pht0
#PublicSpeaking #AspiringSpeakers #IgniteTalks #LightningTalks #FestiveEdition #TechCommunity #TechEvents

2025-12-05 22:40:59 UTC

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Also need to justify that third mandate somehow. You, war times and all...
https://youtu.be/ijf7K_08YWk

2025-12-05 22:35:40 UTC

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Aye, the focus has shifted to proprietary stuff. As much as every fibre of my body dislikes this, I get it.

2025-12-05 15:07:24 UTC

RIP MinIO. This is a bit sad. MinIO has served me well for quite a while. I'm very grateful to the maintainers, and fingers crossed that forks and alternatives will emerge:
https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2
Just a reminder not to take any software project for granted, even something as popular as MinIO. Not FOSS, and certainly not commercial software backed by VC capital (for example, Arc Browser).
#FOSS #MinIO

2025-12-05 11:03:42 UTC

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Zen Browser. Give it a try and let me know. And on mobile IronFox.

2025-12-04 14:05:29 UTC

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Aye, Ohto refill are precise but it does smudge a bit, even the Gel ones. Still I love the feel of the fast drying tip. I also go for 0.5, specially on 80gms or regular bad paper. My fountain pens and rollerballs are ... picky :)

2025-12-04 13:56:03 UTC

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Howdy, have your way. I'm going to disappear from Kind 1 for a while myself very soon. Just let me know if you need anything.

2025-12-04 13:50:07 UTC

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Like Ohto. I'm using a GS02 as an EDC nowadays (love it, also my Diplomat Viper, my Lamy Studio, Zento Signature, Floatunes and Pilot V5 in no particular order)

2025-12-04 13:41:03 UTC

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Lol, while telling everyone else in the public sector to get back to the office for sure. I believe you :). The problem is that the folks that you are trying to compete against have the same plans, bunkers in New Zeland, etc. And I'm still working for the Churrasco and Guarana money, can't compete.

2025-12-04 13:37:23 UTC

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Good to see you back Beave. How's the whole VPS + Wireguard + self hosted relay combo doing? Any progress or has work kept you busy?

2025-12-04 13:35:47 UTC

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You are on your own with this one Mike. 🤣. I'm more on funding the Nomad Brazilian Churrasco and Guarana one man Party... Likely far, far away from the UK if things keep heading in its current direction. Maybe in one of those Islands that you hace been exploring. How's the relocation plans going by the way?

2025-12-04 13:29:43 UTC

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GM Zed, sexy... And I like the Parker Jotter. Are you using it for sketching? Standard refill?

2025-12-04 13:25:48 UTC

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For these folks, BTC and crypto are unfortunately just tools for mixing and adding some indirection between politicians and the real donors. The real financial power behind those donations is the US money printing machine. Crypto is doing some of the worst money laundering that even Big Finance, which has made money from some of the most awful stuff in the world, still will not touch, mostly because the Jamie Dimons of the world still have political ambitions of their own. IMO the economic power of bitcoiners has nothing to do with any of this, other than inflating the crypto market and making sure there is enough liquidity to keep it all going. I see no good news here, for bitcoiners or non bitcoiners. Once democratic institutions and the state violence apparatus are under their control, I can almost guarantee that the techno fascists will eventually turn against BTC holders. We will likely see many real bitcoiners having their BTC infrastructure pen tested with a wrench:
https://xkcd.com/538/

2025-12-04 12:47:13 UTC

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I have a horrible prediction. Donations from billionaires to far right parties are going to shoot up in the UK and Europe, and a lot of it will come through random third parties, "legitimate" money-mixing layers and those crypto "entrepreneurs". Musk is out there turning up at Tommy Robinson events saying things like "Violence is coming for you". Also supporting AfD and most other far right parties with any chance of grabbing power in Europe.
These parties can’t fund themselves legitimately because real businesses don’t want anything to do with their anti-immigration rhetoric, but plenty of powerful folks in the US seem more than happy to lean into a sort of techno feudalism to keep their debt-ridden, fading empire going a bit longer. Unfortunately, destabilising Europe is now part of the menu. The only reason we’re not already seeing "bitcoiners" donating way more than a million pounds to Reform is because these people want someone even more extreme than Farage leading Reform UK. Buying parties that no one else will fund is good business for Musk and friends. And all the people cheering this on because "who likes immigrants?", 'they support BTC" or "the EU is bad" will regret it later.

2025-12-04 02:50:49 UTC

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/39.md - Amethyst allows you to add the I tags.

2025-12-04 02:23:23 UTC

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Looking forward for you to br back utxo, and I haven't forgotten about you or Haven. Just being busy at work, and shifted my focus to other stuff at the moment, but I still need to finish some stuff on Haven when I can be bothered with Nostr again. Lets try to catch up soon. I'm cooking some great things (including non Khatru ones) and want to bounce some ideas at you.

2025-11-25 19:52:37 UTC

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Test after removing OCSP Must Staple (apparently Lets Encrypt no longer supports it)

2025-11-25 19:08:59 UTC

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Lol :)

2025-11-25 19:01:40 UTC

Test after golang.org/x/crypto library bump to v0.45.0

2025-11-25 15:51:57 UTC

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Looking good. And nice initiative!
Unfortunately (well, fortunately as it means I'm no longer unemployed) working hours mid week are no longer available to me. Plus I'm not much of a Hackathon person myself. But I'll keep an eye on what you're all up to for sure.

2025-11-25 07:50:13 UTC

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Will do :). And yeahp. I can try to get something sparted. I didn't know that there was a hackathon going on (perks of living in the European timezone)

2025-11-24 23:23:36 UTC

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Are you accepting contributions yourself? I took a lot of inspiration from your code to create what I'm working on. Most of it doesn’t make much sense on Android (for example, I’m managing Cloudflare tunnels and running cloudflared as a subprocess to expose relays behind NAT) but I also have some features that might be useful, like restricting writes to people you follow, or to people followed by at least three people you follow. There’s no UI, and I’m not using Room/SQLite for my own stuff , but I’d be happy to try separating the “in-memory” WoT model from what I’m building and contribute. This is similar to what Haven does at the moment, using an in-memory WoT map. As simple as it is, it works quite well against spam for folks exposing relays publicly (as I'm sure that some Citrine users are already doing).

2025-11-24 23:04:17 UTC

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I know the feeling. As usual, Brazil mimics what happens in the western hemisphere with some delay. Outsourcing pressure postponed the layoffs in Brazil for a bit, but now the big banks, big tech and startups are playing the same game of laying people off and trying to rehire cheaply as they did here. We need to brace for the next few years. Things are starting to get better here, but it was a total nightmare, especially for IT folks, and even now the market is nowhere near its peak. But I’m honestly starting to see light at the end of the tunnel, so hopefully things will also improve in Brazil in due time.

2025-11-24 22:56:28 UTC

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So, same as always? 🤣
PS: I'm building some backend stuff (not Android) with Kotlin, http4k and Quartz. Quartz is quite nice, even from the perspective of a relay dev. I like where you folks are going with it. I'm very tempted to expand on Citrine or even work on a non-mobile Kotlin relay (well, I'm actually already doing it, but it's hyper specialised and basically not useful to anyone else but me at the moment). Is you, or is there anyone you know of who is already working on something like Khatru in Kotlin, i.e., a Relay side library / framework? (CC: @nprofile…xcpk)

2025-11-24 22:35:21 UTC

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I hope you’re doing well, sudocarlos. You will soon, and things will get better for sure (they’re slowly getting better for me :)). Also, as someone who once jumped straight to the FU stage without really having the FU money and had to live with the consequences… Don’t do it if it can be avoided. Even if it looks like you have clients and a "validated business" on the side, only pull the trigger when you actually have the savings to back it up or when your side business is taking up so much time that your main job has become a bottleneck. That’s the real validation.

2025-11-16 18:56:57 UTC

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@nprofile…n3ze (not sure if you do freelancing, but tou are the only Q&A person I know on Nostr lol)

2025-11-16 18:50:54 UTC

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Agreed. We don't know how many chances we'll get for clients to blow up like this. Please don’t scare the normies and please keep the bots and lightning vendors away from it

2025-11-16 16:26:58 UTC

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Also @nprofile…j5mv, sounds like they will be needing hardware fast or the soon to be biggest Nostr client will be running on Big Tech cloud providers.

2025-11-16 16:25:09 UTC

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@nprofile…nggv, I think that you are in a good position to help here and maybe land the soon to be biggest client on Nostr to relay.tools

2025-11-16 12:34:40 UTC

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GM Zed. Very nice sketch today. I hope yoh enjoy your Sunday :)

2025-11-16 12:29:01 UTC

GM Nostr. Whoever wad the 16 bits enthusiast that donated 32768 sats anonymously, I highly appreciated it. 🫂
#Nostr #FOSS #ZapTheDevs

2025-11-15 14:22:18 UTC

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I'll take you up on your offer for sure. I'll also keep an eye out for it when eating out. It's been a while since I had any sort of game dish (other than a venison pie) :)

2025-11-15 12:34:35 UTC

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Got it, makes sense. Too bad it isn’t popular in restaurants. It makes it a bit out of my league then, unless I manage to steal enough crab apples from someone to prepare a jar. And since I don’t know how to tell them apart from other, potentially poisonous fruit, probably not a great idea 🤣. I think I’ve had redcurrant jam before, but don’t quote me on it. If it is what I think it is, it’s not too bad at all, a bit tart but sweet. I need to get more acquainted withocal fruit and berries.
Now that I think of it, I’ve never come across carambola (star fruit) in the UK. They’re “popular” in Brazil. Also cashew juice, or cashew fruit in general, other than the nuts. I think each country has its fair share of tart, potentially poisonous in high quantities, but delicious stuff :)

2025-11-15 11:30:50 UTC

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Sounds nice 😋. Can I fiind crab apple jelly dishes at restaurants? Or is it more of a home cooked meal?

2025-11-15 11:27:24 UTC

GM Nostr. I woke up to good tech news today.
https://youtu.be/R25rGC7w2fU
1. Google is not fully blocking sideloading, just making it as annoying as they possible can.
2. Regular YouTube is talking about DiVine. @nprofile…62p3’s name is all over the news, from Linus Media Group to Business Insider. The “anti-AI slop” instance seems to have worked. There are even en passant mentions of Nostr while explaining "andOtherStuff". And while some of the media is, as usual, calling it a “Jack Dorsey Vine revival”, at least the focus this time is not a cult of personality.
#GM #Sideload #Divine #GrowNostr

2025-11-15 10:40:21 UTC

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GM Mike. TIL that this weird tree I see so often in the UK is a Malus, that its fruit is called a crab apple and that you can make jam with it. Even after 10+ years around here, there seems to be no limit to how much I don't know that I don't know. 😅

2025-11-12 00:27:17 UTC

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And let me guess... Folks will hate ffmpeg manysiners for telling Google to get bent lol 🍿

2025-11-12 00:23:28 UTC

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Side Pocket was the GOAT. Virtual Pool on PS1 also had a great sound track:
https://youtu.be/BLTJPLdWY4Y

2025-11-11 15:34:18 UTC

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Dor some reason on Amethyst I only saw your own answer after I commented, lol. jq is love, jq is life.

2025-11-11 15:33:19 UTC

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No built-in negative filtering mechanism that I know of. Maybe pipe it through jq (warning, untested):
nak req relay.damus.io | jq -c 'select(.kind != 3)'

2025-11-11 14:55:46 UTC

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Aye. Running Signal is expensive. Even more so than Nostr. Befriend people rocking Signal Boost badges on Signal. These are the best folks.

2025-11-10 14:02:05 UTC

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As we are mostly in agreement, I'll tackle what I see as the root disagreement here:
> I don't think people are bad at prioritising what matters. People are generally quite good at prioritising what matters ... to them. What trade offs matter to them. This often means they're bad at prioritising what matters to others, but such is life.
This is the core disagreement. I honestly think that people suckn at prioritising what really matters. They suck at event knowing what should really matter for them. They are great at prioritising what is convenient, familiar and sounds "proper" in the circles where they want to feel accepted. If folks where good at prioritising what matters we wouldn't have a society of mostly phone addicted, overweight, infertily, depressed folks struggling with anxiety and existential dread slaving out to look a bit less desperated tham they really are.
And yes, I think we need to be annoying and remind them that eating their brocoli and being mindful about their data and the software they use (plus who is pulling the strings behind the software they use), even if they think they "know" what is good for them. At least as long as the fast majority of people, including Nostr users, don't act according to their supposedly values.

2025-11-10 13:49:32 UTC

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Aye, just to make myself 100% clear, I’ve got nothing against Keychat, and I can see how what you’re building would appeal to a lot of folks on Nostr. I’m also very much on board with the model of creating revenue for relay runners instead of, you know, zapping them 100k sats "prizes" to try and create goodwill. I heard nothing but praise from Nostr users towards Keychat so far.
That said, it’s not something I see myself using. Signal covers most of my chat needs. @nprofile…nggv got me back on IRC (noirc.net), which I’m enjoying for “dev” talk that doesn’t need to be private. If I ever need something truly trustworthy and private, I can always go back to self-hosting an XMPP server within a properly secured self-hosted environment behind a VPN.
Nostr devs as a whole won’t come together anywhere regardless; each will insist on their own NIP-29 or NIP-29ish approach and mostly just refuse to collaborate. So even if you nail the UX, revenue model, and everything else, that’s why I said that from my perspective, as amazing as Keychat can potentially be, given human behaviour, it will likely remain a niche tool for BTC and eCash enthusiasts.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m genuinely rooting for your success and for anything that strengthens user privacy in the messenger space. And extra kudos for building a model that properly discourages spam.

2025-11-10 00:19:01 UTC

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I respect your opinion but couldn’t disagree more. Actually, I’m on a one-man war against Nostr’s real, palpable incentives.
People are just bad at prioritising what truly matters. Most people on Nostr will give grand speeches about freedom, anarchy, and building your own roads, then proceed to zap bitcoin memes and behave exactly like they would on Twitter, Gab, etc. On average, the palpable incentive is to keep Nostr as a safe space for the Bitcoin Twitter bubble.
Funding developers who aren’t aligned with, onboard with, or sponsored by the BTC Twitter use case is what Nostr needs in order to evolve. This goes against the same incentives that brought many of its users here in the first place. To stay relevant Nostr needs to outgrow its early-day priorities for the greater good.
I don’t use Keychat, and to avoid falling into the human tendency of criticising what we don’t understand, I won’t say a word against it. That said, based on the project’s own landing pages, their scope seems to be to become the "everything app" for Maxis. So, by definition, I can’t see it as much more than a beloved niche tool.
I’m not disagreeing that ultimately Nostr may exist as an experimental protocol for Bitcoiners, a transitional evolutionary step toward something better yet to come.
That said, I don’t think my points above are wishful thinking or addressing some utopian, unsolvable problem. We just don’t like to face the reality of our real problems. As I like to say, there’s no technical solution to moral problems. Ultimately, people have to choose... And for the vast majority of Nostr users, there’s a lot of theoretical talk and very little to show that they’re ready to actually build and fund a real alternative.
By definition, they’ll either buy or be the product (here or elsewhere) regardless of the technology powering it. Once people truly understand this (and I mean really understand it, beyond grand speeches and doomsaying), hopefully healthier palpable incentive like owning your data and controlling your feed will be taken seriously. And there's no other way to take it seriously other than voting with your wallet and time.
As hard as the technical and organisational problems are (and yes, Nostr has a bunch), the real challenge is getting people to truly understand why we should build something like Nostr, and to have genuine skin in the game.

2025-11-09 11:12:31 UTC

GM Nostr. There’s a lot of truth in this video.
https://youtu.be/DBNZnTspsaw
I dislike her proposed solution, though. I don’t want to be "rescued by Microsoft", or by Azure / AWS / GCP revenue. I don’t want billionaires to sponsor me, or shady BTC payment companies to buy my goodwill with spare-change zaps while driving Nostr users away.
I want users to fund software and break out of the techno-feudalism cycle where a few billionaires control and cash out the multiplier effect of technological progress. I want users to run their own software and infrastructure, to fund software that matters to them, to sponsor developers directly, to learn how to weaponise FOSS licences like the AGPL (no need to "rug pull" if you pick an anti-exploitation licence from the start), and to be free.
I know this is a heavy message for a Sunday morning, but honestly, it doesn’t matter if you’re on Nostr, Mastodon, or anything else. If you aren’t willing to sponsor and contribute to the free internet (and it doesn’t need to be through coding), you’re still just a product at best and a slave at worst.
It’s time to stop talking about doing the thing and actually start doing the thing. Which devs have you zapped lately? How much have you spent on Nostr? What proportion of your sats have gone to benefit this community? Be it donating to client devs, relay runners, "Other Stuff" research, and so on. How are you contributing to this little experiment of ours?
#GM #FOSS #Nostr #GrowNostr #TechnoFeudalism #Decentralisation #SelfHost #AGPL #FreeInternet #SupportDevs #OpenSource #BitcoinCommunity #NostrCommunity

2025-11-08 15:52:26 UTC

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If you are looking for the Browser Extension in question here you go: https://adnauseam.io/

2025-11-08 15:43:48 UTC

As someone who used to spend a lot of time with ROI-obsessed bean counters controlling, well, every budget on 🌎. Make the magic conversion metrics plummet and you kill the main incentive driving companies not only to slurp up everyone’s data, but also to keep you addicted to maximise the chances of you clicking on an ad. Turn Google’s, Meta’s, and X’s own game against them.
If they turn off the data-scraping bots taking down FOSS infrastructure, I might even consider disabling my brand new "ad-clicking" plugin.
https://youtu.be/7GeCq1qwqjc
#ADS #Privacy #BrokenInternet

2025-11-08 15:33:09 UTC

Also... write docs, please, please write docs :) My kingdom for regular folks willing to contribute documentation, websites, blog posts, videos, etc.
As hard as we try, hyper-technical devs have blind spots. The best person to contribute something to the documentation is you. The person who just struggled with Tor, struggle setting up a Cloudflare Tunnel, file systems and ACLs, firewall rules, DNS, Certbot, Systemd, or whatever. This is all just “everyday stuff” to the standard nerd mantainer 🤓, documentation always have gaps.
And also please donate. Everyone has a threshold where they stop doing things purely out of the kindness of their hearts. Sure, it can last 20 or 30 years for some, but the equation is simple: more donations = more time spent doing FOSS work. No money, eventually no FOSS work.
#nevent1q…8lt2
#FOSS #ValueForValue #BeyondJustWords

2025-11-07 10:22:59 UTC

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For a full-time senior developer in HCOL areas in the US (New York, San Francisco, etc.), yes, or at least close to it if you’d expect them to work 40+ hours a week, just like they would at Big Tech or Major Banks.
Nostr already has plenty of active npubs. How many active users do we have right now, around 30k? If 10k of them paid $10 a month, that would be enough to fund three full-time developers; say, Fiafjaf and a couple of core US-based devs. Alternatively, you could fund six people in Germany, twelve in South America, or even more across most of Asia. Or a mix of all that. You could also have part-time developers... lots of possibilities. And as Nostr grows the funding would increase.
Whatever the setup, I think donations should flow directly from plebs to devs . Not from BTC companies, not from billionaires, not from private equity and VC Funds. Otherwise, we’re essentially saying that Nostr (both the the protocol and the ecosystem) isn’t worth $10 a month to its users. And if that’s the case, then honestly, there are already plenty of centralised, extractive social media solutions out there with a much better architecture than Nostr for the "ADS and User data extraction" use cases

2025-11-06 20:25:12 UTC

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I'm zapping way, way, way more than the average Nostrich... Plus I have been maintaining a lot of Nostr software. Can't do it alone though. And Grants won't pay my bills either, not in the UK. You know what could? Like 10 USD a month * one third of the regulars here on Nostr. That could pay for the bills of a lot of devs and operators. You know how many people do this? Well, none is doing it for anything that I built or maintained so far.
You know how many people zap more on AI Generate memes and garbage copied from X than on Devs? A whole lot of people.

2025-11-06 20:03:48 UTC

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To the builders that don't give a rats ass! 🍻

2025-11-06 20:02:48 UTC

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Nah, you will be fine. And there will be new folks for sure, both on Nostr and Alexandria. Plus I'll keep an eye over here. I'm just... Tired and ready to prioritise other things for a while. But is not like I dislike Nostr or anything (trying to get @nprofile…4pwk into a Cloudflare free setup so that he rejoins you here. And for someone that "absolutely hates everything", I think The Beave alone has more praise for you than the next 100 Nostriches combined, so me leaving and him coming back overall is still a huge net positive both for you and for Nostr 🤣).