Nostr notes by thor

still waiting for the microblogging platform that puts a little ...

2023-03-25T05:29:31Z

still waiting for the microblogging platform that puts a little indicator on the posts, so people can tell if i'm in the mood for a discussion or am just venting my frustrations, and the only meaningful interaction you could have with me without annoying me further is to kiss my feet.

my DMs are busier on nostr than on fedi. people wanting to talk ...

2023-03-24T04:26:56Z

my DMs are busier on nostr than on fedi. people wanting to talk to me personally. it's an element i miss on fedi.

this one totally feels like it could have been a fedi post

2023-03-24T04:18:33Z

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this one totally feels like it could have been a fedi post

this is a big question that i could write an entire blog article ...

2023-03-24T02:16:54Z

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this is a big question that i could write an entire blog article about

not been super active on here for the past few days. i do have ...

2023-03-24T02:11:06Z

not been super active on here for the past few days. i do have more friends over on the Fediverse so it feels a little warmer and friendlier still.

if this was the Fediverse, there would be, but no Nostr clients ...

2023-03-24T02:09:48Z

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if this was the Fediverse, there would be, but no Nostr clients appear to have a "Mute conversation" option

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2023-03-23T18:23:47Z

me doing 4D chess moves to get at the coldest discount beer cans

anybody here do any Ethereum smart contract coding? they're ...

2023-03-19T02:08:06Z

anybody here do any Ethereum smart contract coding? they're interesting. you can have bots running on the blockchain and they can perform jobs.

solve the major complaints and your chance of getting mainstream ...

2023-03-17T23:28:55Z

solve the major complaints and your chance of getting mainstream adoption increase considraby

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2023-03-17T23:25:35Z

https://thorwegian.bandcamp.com/track/the-princess-is-in-another-castle

one might want to avoid prosecution - shockingly enough

2023-03-17T23:07:23Z

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one might want to avoid prosecution - shockingly enough

it's a hybrid model ...

2023-03-17T22:22:11Z

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it's a hybrid model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model

we aligned with America in the Cold War so we object to being ...

2023-03-17T22:17:31Z

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we aligned with America in the Cold War so we object to being labelled as communists

visible annoyance stop calling it that

2023-03-17T22:16:41Z

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*visible annoyance* stop calling it that

my cat sorta just examines the situation it actually takes some ...

2023-03-17T21:35:25Z

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my cat sorta just examines the situation

it actually takes some effort to get him clawing and biting. he saves it for special occasions.

my cat has good nerves. this giant ape that could kill him does ...

2023-03-17T21:18:44Z

my cat has good nerves. this giant ape that could kill him does unpredictable things and he doesn't even blink an eye.

bullshit filter triggered i find Greta Thunberg fairly annoying ...

2023-03-17T20:52:03Z

bullshit filter triggered

i find Greta Thunberg fairly annoying too, don't get me wrong

but she's Scandinavian and so am i

and the Nordic model is NOT pure communism. i have a bit more cultural context here than most of you. i know how she grew up. you don't.

it's a hybrid model. we're pro-business AND pro-community. we blend a little of both.

can you guess why our GDPs are so high? because we're willing to compromise and be pragmatic.

i don't disagree with Gretas message. but yes, she's really annoying at times.

the globe is heating up. seeing as we're absurdly populous compared to other mammals, and have to resort to the insect world to find comparable figures, i do think she's onto something...

one of the reasons that Nostr appeals to me is how the protocol ...

2023-03-17T20:45:49Z

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one of the reasons that Nostr appeals to me is how the protocol itself is fairly lightweight. some of the clients i come across could stand to be a little lighter too...

some clients try hard to be intelligent, such as iris.to. but it ...

2023-03-17T20:43:31Z

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some clients try hard to be intelligent, such as iris.to. but it spins the fan on my laptop too much. maybe a balance should be struck.

i'd give your argument a little more weight if it wasn't ...

2023-03-17T20:30:00Z

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i'd give your argument a little more weight if it wasn't so clumsily formulated

(blunt truth here, i'm not being kind)

(when i say Bogofilter was the first, i don't mean my first. ...

2023-03-17T20:14:20Z

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(when i say Bogofilter was the first, i don't mean my first. it was literally the first to use that method of spam filtering. it's still being actively maintained.)

before i decided to let email be someone else's problem, i ...

2023-03-17T20:12:49Z

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before i decided to let email be someone else's problem, i was using bogofilter on my email. i had been using SpamAssassin before. it had other filters than the Bayesian classifier, but as i discovered, using those other filters made it worse. the classifier was the best part of it. bogofilter was the first Bayesian email spam filter. so i dropped SpamAssassin and just filtered with Bogofilter and a lot of bloat was eliminated. #[5]

i don't like the woke movement but it's mainly because ...

2023-03-17T20:01:14Z

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i don't like the woke movement but it's mainly because it's as lacking in nuance as the Ku Klux Klan.

all of it? no. cultures exist. but i don't consider it ...

2023-03-17T20:00:03Z

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all of it? no. cultures exist. but i don't consider it inherent to people who have black genetics to do that kind of stuff. after all, empires were created by black people in Africa. also, they were more than capable of treating each other like shit. humans are prone to that...

oh but this is simple - poverty a lot of "black people ...

2023-03-17T19:58:27Z

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oh but this is simple - poverty

a lot of "black people stuff" is just "poor people stuff"

i'm more likely to be entertaining if i'm zapped. i'm ...

2023-03-17T19:57:28Z

i'm more likely to be entertaining if i'm zapped. i'm blood and flesh too and need to buy things. what things? none of your business.

pink-skinned people seem to cause a lot of problem too. i mean, ...

2023-03-17T19:52:27Z

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pink-skinned people seem to cause a lot of problem too. i mean, i'm just not detecting a pattern where being black is causing a lot of trouble...

have you considered that perhaps assholes are the true problem?

2023-03-17T19:50:56Z

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have you considered that perhaps assholes are the true problem?

oh, that's very much a good thing. consider that people who ...

2023-03-17T19:38:55Z

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oh, that's very much a good thing.

consider that people who make media are making a living. their job IS to distract you. go spend time with your pet. or watch a fun video. or take a walk.

when was the last time you or those you care about were PERSONALLY affected by something in the media? doesn't happen very often, does it... so why, exactly, is it important?

know how Einstein figured out relativity theory? he called them ...

2023-03-17T19:35:26Z

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know how Einstein figured out relativity theory? he called them "thought experiments" but tbh that was "just" daydreaming.

well, yes, essentially, but i'm of the opinion that some of ...

2023-03-17T19:34:25Z

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well, yes, essentially, but i'm of the opinion that some of the most creative things human kind ever did were devised during these moments.

> who is this Thor guy? well, first an foremost, i'm an ...

2023-03-17T18:50:02Z

> who is this Thor guy?

well, first an foremost, i'm an autistic information sponge...

wouldn't mind if my server 152.70.60.248 was granted the ...

2023-03-17T18:45:57Z

wouldn't mind if my server 152.70.60.248 was granted the ability to query most relays in ways that clients aren't allowed to. i'm not a spambot. i'm creating infrastructure for Nostr.

so far, the web client that has been the gentlest on resource ...

2023-03-17T18:25:02Z

so far, the web client that has been the gentlest on resource usage for me is snort.social. it doesn't do anything fancy but it seems fairly lightweight.

as a technical person, i really like the simplicity of the Nostr ...

2023-03-17T18:21:40Z

as a technical person, i really like the simplicity of the Nostr protocol, and how it basically does what i've been complaining that ActivityPub should have done for years. you're even less at the mercy of the whims of one person/company on Nostr than you are on the Fediverse. but it's challenging to make lightweight clients. i think intelligent spam filtering aggregate relays are going to be important for Nostr.

bingo

2023-03-17T18:18:54Z

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bingo

i've been posting about spam filtering myself and i think you ...

2023-03-17T18:18:17Z

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i've been posting about spam filtering myself and i think you get a pretty clean feed if you stuck a naive Bayesian classifier on a relay pool. i've been thinking if i should make an aggregator similar to filter.nostr.wine except it uses that algoriithm.

a lot of the relays that filter.nostr.wine reads from are a bit ...

2023-03-17T18:13:37Z

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a lot of the relays that filter.nostr.wine reads from are a bit hard to actually get responses from directly. many of them don't seem to respond to queries. i'm not sure why.

when designing a user interface, assume that the user has zero ...

2023-03-17T13:26:16Z

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when designing a user interface, assume that the user has zero patience and will ruthlessly abandon your software if it isn't smooth.

you may hate this, but it will help it get wider adoption.

to the user, programmers don't exist. what they click or poke with their finger does. your preference of framework is irrelevant.

prefer what causes that click or tap to go faster.

prefer what doesn't cause the laptop to spin the fan up. if you make code that causes fans to spin up, this will cause people to buy a new computer. this isn't necessary. you can just write efficient code instead.

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2023-03-17T13:20:36Z

can you guess what tbqhwy means?

having worked for 15 years in dev, my general impression is that ...

2023-03-17T13:13:35Z

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having worked for 15 years in dev, my general impression is that if a dev hates doing it, the user will love it.

i'm a techie and i'm being far more patient about Nostr ...

2023-03-17T13:12:55Z

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i'm a techie and i'm being far more patient about Nostr flaws and complications than the average user would be. but i they're still flaws. they need to get fixed ASAP. one of the things Steve Jobs was good at was to be a nazi about UX. was it pleasant to his employees? most decidedly not. did it create a smooth experience? most definitely yes.

this is the second time i've poked #[3] about it but he seems ...

2023-03-17T13:05:15Z

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this is the second time i've poked #[3] about it but he seems to be ignoring it. i may be forced to implement a blacklist in my indexer. but that might quickly turn into a game of whack-a-mole.

if you're a developer and you're curious what i've ...

2023-03-17T13:01:41Z

if you're a developer and you're curious what i've been coding, i have a Git repository at:

https://saga.berserker.town/thor

saga.berserker.town is a Git hosting site available to anyone who has an account on https://berserker.town

once you have a berserker.town account, you can use SSO and host code projects on there.

browses old files on computer even in the digital world, we ...

2023-03-17T09:42:41Z

*browses old files on computer* even in the digital world, we generate waste...

okay, found something i don't like about iris.to web right ...

2023-03-17T03:51:11Z

okay, found something i don't like about iris.to web right away. where are my own posts? i want them in the feed together with everything else...

trying out iris.to as a desktop client again. found out how to ...

2023-03-17T03:49:38Z

trying out iris.to as a desktop client again. found out how to disable the built-in filter. can immediately tell that it gets my laptop's fan going way more than snort.social does, but hopefully, i should actually be able to open all threads in this...

i end up opening them on Damus on my phone.

2023-03-17T03:47:16Z

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i end up opening them on Damus on my phone.

it's been a while since i looked at the specifics of the ...

2023-03-17T03:03:40Z

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it's been a while since i looked at the specifics of the Bitcoin protocol but i would assume that you could not derive a signature from a transaction ID. if you could, why separately include a signature? that would be a waste of space. Bitcoin is a fairly minimalist protocol as far as blockchains go.

it would be very hard for someone without a tech or at least some ...

2023-03-17T02:48:11Z

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it would be very hard for someone without a tech or at least some math background to understand this stuff, yes. if you saw my message about learning how it works from earlier, that was probably aimed more at the tech crowd. far from all of them understand how it works either.

in some respects, they're taking a page from Apple's ...

2023-03-17T01:57:04Z

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in some respects, they're taking a page from Apple's playbook and are innovating in ways you'd usually only see in a startup.

if you've been following what Microsoft has been doing in the ...

2023-03-17T01:55:57Z

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if you've been following what Microsoft has been doing in the software development space since Bill Gates left, you'll see that their approach has radically changed.

no one takes Bing seriously so Microsoft has nothing to lose and ...

2023-03-17T01:53:59Z

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no one takes Bing seriously so Microsoft has nothing to lose and everything to gain by disrupting the search space.

Google already has good AI researchers working for them and have ...

2023-03-17T01:53:04Z

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Google already has good AI researchers working for them and have similar AI models, but Microsoft is much freer to act in this space. they have hardly any reputation in search so any crazy stunt they pull will be good PR for them. any crazy stunt Google pulls will be bad PR for Google.

they're two very different things

2023-03-17T01:03:43Z

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they're two very different things

it's an AI startup they acquired earlier that's been ...

2023-03-17T01:00:46Z

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it's an AI startup they acquired earlier that's been doing this stuff

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2023-03-16T21:44:00Z

life approach: 🐸

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2023-03-16T21:41:11Z

imagine a weed smoking head of state

my friend laughed when i said there are more pretty girls on ...

2023-03-16T21:19:28Z

my friend laughed when i said there are more pretty girls on Nostr than on Mastodon 😆

there must be a way of making a Nostr web client that doesn't ...

2023-03-16T20:24:27Z

there must be a way of making a Nostr web client that doesn't cause the fan on your laptop to spin up like a jet engine

it wouldn't hurt if you could unlike and unrepost things.

2023-03-16T20:22:38Z

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it wouldn't hurt if you could unlike and unrepost things.

i think there are a couple of things but i'd have to think ...

2023-03-16T20:15:47Z

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i think there are a couple of things but i'd have to think about it. a big one that was recently implemented across many servers was editing. when you edit a post, others can see that it was edited and you can check the edit history if you want. also, if you repost something and it gets edited, you get a notification about it, so you can check if you still approve of what you reposted. but you can't withdraw anything on Nostr. you can't undo a like or a repost.

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2023-03-16T19:41:28Z

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2023-03-16T19:31:01Z

🍨

how dare the animal have spirit ...

2023-03-16T19:30:01Z

how dare the animal have spirit

almond milk, please

2023-03-16T19:20:21Z

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almond milk, please

Mastodon has a pronounced lack of cool chicks. there are some ...

2023-03-16T19:09:51Z

Mastodon has a pronounced lack of cool chicks. there are some there but this place has more.

it might as well be - my sense of humour can be Pythonesque at ...

2023-03-16T19:08:22Z

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it might as well be - my sense of humour can be Pythonesque at times

i've basically been complaining for years about how ...

2023-03-16T19:06:46Z

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i've basically been complaining for years about how ActivityPub chose to solve the identity problem. i've been on Mastodon since 2017 - a year after it was released - and the lack of nomadic identities was always a pet peeve of mine

the basic architecture of Nostr is basically what i've been ...

2023-03-16T19:04:18Z

the basic architecture of Nostr is basically what i've been saying that ActivityPub should have been - but ActivityPub was designed by a W3C workgroup, so of course it had to centre around existing web standards to even get accepted

ahh, yes, the ancient Greek philosopher Testicles [testy-klees] ...

2023-03-16T18:58:37Z

ahh, yes, the ancient Greek philosopher Testicles [testy-klees] and his parable about the Athenian hero Pubes [pew-bees]

i'm gonna say we're about 22k active humans on here.

2023-03-16T18:14:37Z

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i'm gonna say we're about 22k active humans on here.

i think my Nostr indexer knows most of the active users on Nostr ...

2023-03-16T18:09:43Z

i think my Nostr indexer knows most of the active users on Nostr now and it looks to be about 22-23k accounts. it's watching the global timeline on some of the most active relays on the network and is listening to all events from them to collect account information, and it isn't updating its account database very often anymore.

sensing that my patience is running out, so if you don't ...

2023-03-16T14:30:48Z

sensing that my patience is running out, so if you don't immediately get me now, you're per definition an annoyance.

*has

2023-03-16T14:01:39Z

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*has

ironically, it had a lot in common with Swedish, yet your average ...

2023-03-16T14:01:29Z

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ironically, it had a lot in common with Swedish, yet your average person considers Swedish pretty smooth while Nynorsk is cringe. 🤷‍♂️

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2023-03-16T13:57:38Z

snort.social has problems with some threads, it seems like

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2023-03-16T13:28:09Z

all in all, ducks are a bunch of quacks

and you're flying there together with your mates in the ...

2023-03-16T13:24:38Z

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and you're flying there together with your mates in the squadron and are going there in formation. i gotta admit i'm somewhat jealous of birds.

quite a lot of people use it. it hit 45k users on its first day. ...

2023-03-16T13:06:44Z

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quite a lot of people use it. it hit 45k users on its first day. someone talked about 2 million users.

correction: fedi has been around for longer than 2016 but the ...

2023-03-16T13:05:04Z

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correction: fedi has been around for longer than 2016 but the biggest thing on it - Mastodon - emerged in 2016.

it's taken them surprisingly long to find the Fediverse ...

2023-03-16T13:04:28Z

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it's taken them surprisingly long to find the Fediverse picnic, considering that it's been around since 2016. account registration, email verification and in some cases manual approval does seem to keep a lot of ants out.

if you want your shit to run fast and not thermal throttle the ...

2023-03-16T13:03:04Z

if you want your shit to run fast and not thermal throttle the CPU of your user, you might consider thinking about the O-notation implications of what you're writing, and also keep in mind what your JS code ends up as on the CPU as you're writing it. sure, you may wanna specialise on front-end or back-end but having some awareness of what's going on across the stack and down to the CPU registers is gonna help you write better code.

plain old DOM code runs really fast if you know how to write it. ...

2023-03-16T13:00:51Z

plain old DOM code runs really fast if you know how to write it. there's no shortcut to performant code. frameworks are mostly useful if you need to standardise a bunch of incompetent junior devs on something. if you actually know what you're doing and are operating solo, rolling your own is perfectly fine, and will likely run faster.

stop writing stuff in React. it doesn't make things faster. ...

2023-03-16T12:59:05Z

stop writing stuff in React. it doesn't make things faster. you make things faster by understanding the fundamentals of computer science. my laptop is running too hot because you - the asshole - didn't do your research.

i'm just seeing the default purple ostrich avatar over here

2023-03-16T12:47:39Z

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i'm just seeing the default purple ostrich avatar over here

there is a long story behind how i switched from KeePassXC to ...

2023-03-16T12:17:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…7wnc
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there is a long story behind how i switched *from* KeePassXC to BitWarden and did so very much on purpose

TOTP is basically the technical name for Google Authenticate. any ...

2023-03-16T12:03:11Z

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TOTP is basically the technical name for Google Authenticate. any time you see a web app tell you to use Google Authenticate, you can use the TOTP support in BitWarden instead.

12 dollars a month?!

2023-03-16T12:02:16Z

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12 dollars a month?!

if they decided to bump up the annual fee for TOTP considerably, ...

2023-03-16T12:01:54Z

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if they decided to bump up the annual fee for TOTP considerably, i'd still consider paying it, because i use it so heavily, it gives me peace of mind and it makes things convenient yet also highly secure.

i'm considering if i should set up my own Bitwarden server. ...

2023-03-16T12:00:37Z

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i'm considering if i should set up my own Bitwarden server. i'm currently paying them a tiny sum per year to enable TOTP and i know i could set up my own server to avoid that, but TBH, that tiny sum feels like a fair donation for the work they put into making such a great tool.

there are perfectly good websites and books about everything i ...

2023-03-16T11:43:39Z

there are perfectly good websites and books about everything i know but people want *me* to explain things to them.

to understand how Nostr is able to function without signing up ...

2023-03-16T11:36:23Z

to understand how Nostr is able to function without signing up for accounts anywhere, it's really useful to understand public key cryptography, a.k.a. asymmetric cryptography. the main way of doing that is the RSA algorithm. Bitcoin uses secp256k1 elliptic curve cryptography instead, which is considered to be more future-proof since it's more resilient to quantum computer attacks.

i no longer remember how my Nostr key pair was generated. i just ...

2023-03-16T11:31:19Z

i no longer remember how my Nostr key pair was generated. i just got one from somewhere at some point and stored it in BitWarden (a password manager i strongly recommend)

i like how npubs are barely any shorter than the hex public keys ...

2023-03-16T11:23:10Z

i like how npubs are barely any shorter than the hex public keys they're meant to shorten.

oh, well, particularly trans people tend to get death threats and ...

2023-03-16T11:20:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…supu
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oh, well, particularly trans people tend to get death threats and other kinds of hatred on Twitter, which is unpleasant

i find Fediverse people rather hard to put in a box. they're ...

2023-03-16T11:17:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…8gkh
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i find Fediverse people rather hard to put in a box. they're all over the place. you've got the geeks who like the tech, the LGBT people who fled Twitter, woke activists, legit hammer-and-sickle communists, and also people who aren't quite so easy to label, such as the people from noagendasocial.com.

that's not what i said, no. if Twitter owned it, it ...

2023-03-16T11:06:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…74wz
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that's not what i said, no. if Twitter owned it, it wouldn't be an alternative. that's like saying Instagram is an alternative to Facebook, but Meta owns them both, so it's the same company. like Nostr, Mastodon isn't owned by anyone or operated by any one person or company. it's free and open and not centrally controlled.

i don't think so. maybe the whole thing just escaped your ...

2023-03-16T11:02:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…gfve
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i don't think so. maybe the whole thing just escaped your radar? it happens sometimes. there were some news stories about people escaping from Twitter to Mastodon when Elon Musk took it over. it's the biggest alternative to Twitter right now.

to be honest with you, it's a little bit of both. the ...

2023-03-16T10:48:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…sw5w
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to be honest with you, it's a little bit of both. the Fediverse - where i have lived since 2017 - is a nice place but it's also a bit anti-commercial and it's harder to code stuff for it. Nostr is more money-positive and easier to code for.