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Hey, friends! Trying something new to help surface diamonds in the rough. https://discover.syb.lol and wss://discover.syb.lol . Login for it to remember what you've seen, etc.
It's got reactions and you can view comments. Enjoy!

2026-10-07 22:03:41 UTC

i made a way to move a password or key from one device to another by scanning a QR code
no account, no server of your own. it travels over public nostr relays, sealed with NIP-44 + NIP-59 so the relays can’t read it. both devices use throwaway keys that are destroyed after one transfer
draft spec, not audited yet. please try to break it
https://sybenx.github.io/qr-secret-transfer/

2026-09-14 02:52:58 UTC

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Hey why not use SingleFile for the archiving sites on the ditto extension? No risk of the site partially failing or getting partially deleted.
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/singlefile

2026-09-10 16:56:08 UTC

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AI is escaping labs ✅
It will destroy humanity ❌
Anthropic and OpenAI want to control the market ✅

2026-09-03 23:14:51 UTC

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The point is "dumb and dangerous" AI will have some consequences for research, it might keep us from actually inventing super-intelligence for much, much longer.

2026-09-03 23:11:11 UTC

AI probably won't do a Hiroshima before it does a Chernobyl.

2026-09-02 13:00:18 UTC

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Any chance you'd share that backup as a raw dump? I run 8 relays and have 40TB sitting idle. I'll handle making the torrent and seed it indefinitely, you'd just need to get me the file once. Feels wrong for 125M events of history to exist in one place.

2026-09-02 12:00:19 UTC

Nostr is permanently meta as a social network. Greatest strength and weakness.

2026-09-02 11:44:15 UTC

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Literally both.

2026-09-01 15:16:35 UTC

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Tailscale is what I use, there's some similar tools if you want more control.

2026-09-01 15:12:18 UTC

Nostr is the Internet before the Eternal September. I dread and look forward to the day our AOL arrives.

2026-08-28 09:58:03 UTC

AI is way better at coding than reasoning.

2026-08-26 17:05:36 UTC

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They're the same guy

2026-08-26 16:58:23 UTC

Most nostr users don't even know they're using nostr.

2026-08-26 16:51:21 UTC

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*most* of my follows were before bots were good enough. That's all I have left to hold on to. This is the best reason to go to a nostr conference I guess, human verification.

2026-08-26 11:41:34 UTC

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To be specific on who is suggesting this:
https://npub175rnagjgxtvwvfrdytkqkkn4h062zf2cuwkx0jc8xc9nga895s8qgsef5g.blossom.band/d7666b2173de8d2e74dae12dea4cfeb1dd84f7a719fff352785d33f7244066ad.jpg

2026-08-26 04:00:35 UTC

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What do you need to live confortably? Buy a brand new house every 3 years? These numbers are wild.

2026-08-26 00:32:10 UTC

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Unless he's the CTO too.

2026-08-25 12:32:54 UTC

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Steroids shrink the mind

2026-08-23 19:22:00 UTC

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That's the error that Game of Thrones made with Bran. A reluctant leader is not always a good leader. Passion isn't evil.

2026-08-23 16:01:20 UTC

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Wild that instead of taking the failed BIP-110 as a sign that the new rules smuggled in too many unnecessary restrictions, all these guys take it as a sign of moral failure of the "BTC guys". Arbitrary data is still a concern of mine, especially with storage space increasing in cost, but every time I reviewed BIP-110 it seemed to be cutting out and changing more than necessary to achieve its goals.

2026-08-23 04:47:56 UTC

AI is being trained to produce a minimum viable happy human.
Viable for whom?

2026-08-23 03:10:23 UTC

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The missing thing is that nobody runs exploration here. On the big platforms a percentage of impressions gets spent on accounts nobody has heard of, to see whether they do well, and they bother with that because losing new creators costs them money. There's no equivalent pressure on nostr, so WoT ends up being the only signal and all it tells you is who already vouched for someone, which costs a replyguy nothing to manufacture.
Nothing about nostr rules out fixing it though. Someone could run a ranking DVM funded by ads and it would be fine, since if you don't like it you subscribe to a different one.

2026-08-22 02:55:52 UTC

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Nostr is the best part of 4chan frankly

2026-08-22 02:49:07 UTC

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I'd mine harder on BIP110 but I think the restriction choices need more debate first

2026-08-15 15:28:06 UTC

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NostrOS

2026-08-15 14:25:24 UTC

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Will this be a public blocklist?

2026-08-14 16:31:07 UTC

Posting on x is a relationship with x. Posting on nostr is a relationship with physics.

2026-08-12 22:03:01 UTC

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during all this, the fiatjaf pyramid popular page has been my goto. maybe whitelisting and invite-trees are the way.

2026-07-31 14:02:58 UTC

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I also love my bitkey. It's the only one I'd recommend to others.
@nprofile…jj6h

2026-07-31 02:25:46 UTC

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What should be done

2026-07-31 02:15:17 UTC

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If you generated your seed before 2021, you're apparently safe.

2026-07-30 11:48:02 UTC

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Droid-ify is a better F-Droid client if you have tried F-Droid already and didn't like the app

2026-07-27 19:11:59 UTC

The odds of nuclear armageddon can increase while deaths in war also go down. Both can be true at once.

2026-07-23 03:41:34 UTC

It's not nostr vs social media, it's nostr vs the foundations of the web: it's nostr vs the URL.

2026-07-22 16:55:50 UTC

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i must have missed something. what happened with damus

2026-07-20 16:45:03 UTC

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And the alternative? More people die, and those who disagree get shot.

2026-07-15 09:42:20 UTC

GM Nostr, glad you exist

2026-07-10 16:52:24 UTC

If BIP110 results in a chain split, ETFs might pick the wrong chain.

2026-07-09 14:51:08 UTC

You should tie bitcoin to your npub. Because it's *useful.*
Right now, knowing your nsec is compromised requires the person who compromised it to be a white hat. That's the entire security model. I've thought about key compromise since day one and this solves a massive headache.
Bitcoin on the npub is the most explicit pay-for-your-privacy system online. You choose the size of the carrot, and you only pay if it fails. The money never leaves your hands unless your nsec is already compromised.
If the funds move, you know. Immediately. The more you leave on the npub, the harder it is for someone holding your nsec to sit still.
The previous incentive for black hats was to sit on an nsec as long as possible and collect as much compromising data as possible. Now they have to weigh stealing the funds directly vs hoovering up private data indefinitely. Every day they wait, they're paying an opportunity cost you set.
The effect is that your private DMs and other encrypted material are safer, because the sooner the canary dies, the sooner you move off the nsec and the less future data gets compromised.
@npub1q3s…d26p @npub1gcx…nj5z

2026-07-09 13:53:00 UTC

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Sonnet has exceeded my expectations.

2026-07-05 16:00:23 UTC

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Violence (or the credible threat of it) does solve resource allocation and control problems in the real world. States can seize your hardware, raid your house, imprison you, freeze your bank accounts, conscript you, or destroy your means of living. Cryptography protects the information, but it doesn't protect the resources needed to generate, store, or use that information. In the end, the side with superior coercive force can still win by controlling the physical layer... computers, people, energy, networks, money.

2026-07-05 06:20:59 UTC

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Violence solves a resource problem.

2026-07-03 08:10:49 UTC

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If Natural Law defines marriage, where does Natural Law specify that a spouse is owed her prior lifestyle indefinitely?
Marriage is currently a Government thing. Divorce is a government thing. The local community doesn't evaluate the value of a woman in a divorce, the court does.
You're not defending Natural Law, you're defending alimony and child support

2026-06-28 15:25:53 UTC

Who runs nostr.com?

2026-06-26 19:12:15 UTC

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Ads!

2026-06-22 16:45:17 UTC

AI and religion both give humans instructions.
The alignment problem is shared. It's the problem of aligning an instruction set.
#AI

2026-06-19 15:36:49 UTC

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AFAIK they use one relay, and the legions of bots are encouraging people to send BCH to the wallet issued by the website. Smells like an exit scam to me.

2026-06-19 15:23:38 UTC

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BCHNostr.com, the thing this ocean of bots are all raving about

2026-06-19 06:08:28 UTC

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Closed-source website which issues your nsec and your wallet for you to send your BCH. Perfectly safe and no AI or spam scamminess here. 🙄

2026-06-19 02:35:58 UTC

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Govt involvement DOESNT stop software. Ever. See China. Bitcoin still works there. And if they really try, they just make themselves fools while failing too.

2026-06-19 02:21:25 UTC

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The more, the martyr

2026-06-18 23:10:57 UTC

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Bot

2026-06-18 23:10:49 UTC

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Bot

2026-06-18 23:08:17 UTC

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Nothing is meant to be

2026-06-18 22:17:03 UTC

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why not ads
🛡😨🛡

2026-06-17 02:10:05 UTC

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And enforcement is done... How?

2026-06-17 01:14:58 UTC

So BCHNostr is a closed source web site which generates the user nsec and wallet for them. Hmm

2026-06-16 20:38:53 UTC

https://blossom.syb.lol/1827985716cc7ca093ff5d4596562bd4c4a3a474fe97948ebbb077ebbda9e127.webp
https://kojira.github.io/nostr-license/

2026-06-16 18:50:29 UTC

Nostr is most likely to survive the AIpocolypse of all social media. When nobody believes anything online, Nostr will still be real and verifiable. The WoT here will remain.

2026-06-16 18:38:19 UTC

Who holds the BCH when you deposit it? Is BCHNostr trying to rug pull?
#nevent1q…kum7

2026-06-15 20:41:30 UTC

zap store, ngit, nsite, etc. nostr is the web protocol everyone everyone was trying to hamstring http into.

2026-06-15 20:41:06 UTC

If Mythos is anything like what it's reputed to be, the whole internet is going to become airgapped.

2026-06-15 16:41:06 UTC

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No. I know people with house payments from the 90s that are paying $400 a month. With inflation alone, it's just a waiting game.

2026-06-15 16:32:37 UTC

Just a reminder all BlueSky DM's and group chats are centralized on one server and accessible by staff.

2026-06-14 02:18:08 UTC

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Clients could also be relays

2026-06-13 06:15:38 UTC

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Slop for me and not for thee

2026-06-12 05:29:34 UTC

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Vulgar times call for vulgar measures

2026-06-10 04:31:19 UTC

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pats*

2026-06-09 22:33:40 UTC

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Figured out the other day some apps rewrite `nostr:npub` as `@username` and ignore the `@npub` format

2026-06-08 23:42:43 UTC

modernity is dumb. it depends on surplus and lasts only until it runs out.

2026-06-08 22:19:21 UTC

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@npub126n…e9ll

2026-06-08 22:18:50 UTC

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@npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll

2026-06-08 21:04:54 UTC

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would be a great thing to mirror on nsite

2026-06-08 20:59:33 UTC

having money on my nsec is a canary in the coal mine for the security of my dm's.

2026-06-08 20:47:08 UTC

Pretty cool: https://npub.world/stats

2026-06-08 15:17:03 UTC

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The primary haven from play store, github and the backup comms network that works worldwide. Many people will use nostr and not know it.

2026-06-07 16:24:15 UTC

There are true adherents obedient to the central god of the community first and personal next. Then there are those obedient only to their personal god, who get excluded from community. And then there are those who LARP as adherents to the central god but adhere to their personal god whenever they can get away with it.
Obedience to the personal god is joy. To the central god is both work and suffering, but community from this obedience is the source of all goodness out of civilization: medicine, technology.
Exception: among Jews, the goodness flows the other way, from those excluded for obeying only their personal god.

2026-06-07 13:39:03 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByNFtOslw18
https://ordain.art/films

2026-06-07 13:27:27 UTC

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There are natural paths resulting from selection pressure. Return to monke and edit it out. They're dire things and they're how individuals in civilization work. Civs decline because of this drive, return to monke. And gene editing is the only other path which can and will be taken by individuals.

2026-06-06 20:46:18 UTC

Nostr as infrastructure 🤌
#nevent1q…72mr

2026-06-06 19:33:42 UTC

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Why wouldn't it already be happening? How many exhanges already operate like futures? or don't even have withdrawal at all

2026-06-06 17:49:51 UTC

I like how different all the nostr clients are becoming.

2026-06-06 17:05:37 UTC

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Amber constantly running in the background seems worse in some ways than pasting the nsec.

2026-06-06 14:54:05 UTC

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Except you also rented the bus for six months.

2026-06-06 14:47:58 UTC

Religion without brotherhood is nothing.

2026-06-06 10:37:27 UTC

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Need invite codes so I can just give people a link and it lets them follow me after downloading wisp