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The issue with Nostr is in UI terms:
- people like Reddit because they discuss topics
- people like Twitter to follow others
- people like blogs to read things
All the three works on text and so could be on Nostr, but so far no complete UI, a single app you can deploy for relay and client together offer the 3 above united while anything is already here.
Adding also audio/video chat like XMPP but with Nostr identities and just Coturn aside would be a killer feature but so far what's there is a bit broken. To spread people needed to convince are nerds, they will bring others.

2026-03-20 14:48:57 UTC

Just to say:
- https://news.ki.se/high-meat-consumption-linked-to-lower-dementia-risk-in-genetic-risk-group
- https://news.mcmaster.ca/researchers-find-link-between-ultra-processed-foods-and-infertility-in-u-s-women/

2026-03-20 14:48:07 UTC

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Well, most people struggle to grasp the concept of digital private property; they understand what it means to own a pair of shoes, but they don't get what it means in digital because they see a screen and, to them, what they're looking at is just there, on the screen in their hand, not coming from someone else's servers.
This simple phenomenon makes it easy to set up certain business models and, besides, the shift towards cloud+mobile, essentially modern mainframes + dumb terminals, serves perfectly to deny the average person "the power of the desktop" and, with it, personal ownership.

2026-03-18 23:46:17 UTC

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/ the real point and scandal is not FBI who buy, but those who sell, who already possess such data...

2026-03-14 08:57:37 UTC

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You need to define what being a sysadmin means. Imagine a distro like Umbrel, Start9, Univention, etc essentially a distro that serves a web app with a series of "pre-configured" services by default. Imagine it's not based on obsolete distros like Debian, but on declarative distros like NixOS, where devs don't fork but simply maintain the config with every update, giving users something that practically never breaks between releases.
Being a sysadmin in this case means knowing how to deploy a distro on a home server, basically a generic desktop computer recycled for this purpose, following a fairly trivial wizard, and using the services. If something goes wrong, there's the community to ask for a hand maybe with Nostr/WoT as comms and social score backbone + economic model behind.
The skills you need cut across every discipline; it's IT knowledge that even a greengrocer needs to have today.
The problem is that today's devs don't understand this; it's not their world because they haven't experienced real FLOSS. They were just born inside some giant company, using its services, without knowing anything else. This is why there's been a push to eliminate or marginalise Ops, and today, with LLMs, they're trying to marginalise devs, just as doctors are being marginalised while glorifying nurses, as "paramedics" etc. In other words, anyone with PERSONAL ability and PERSONAL culture is being crushed, because through these they build their PRIVATE property and aren't just a number, a stereotypical Ford-model worker to be managed on an assembly line, but a capable individual who stands on their own two feet.
You have every right, then, to complain about the state of complication rather than the complexity of modern software, but you also have the need to know just enough to be sovereign in society in your time. Otherwise, well, you can only be a slave, and even if that doesn't sound pleasant described so bluntly, it's necessary to digest it and choose.

2026-03-14 08:45:43 UTC

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Very true, but how many people actually have a home server? Because that’s the prerequisite we should all have, just as we should all have a domain name, IPv6 with a global per host, and a basic IT literacy that spans every discipline, yet is lacking in almost every discipline, often including PhDs in CS and CE.
Nowadays we write everything on computers, except perhaps for a few notes, but most people don't know how to typeset a decent document, they don't know how to generate a graph, do basic maths, or draw in a simple CAD or freehand style. In other words, most are incapable of communicating their thoughts using the tools of their time at the minimum level necessary to be defined as an "intellectual" or a "cultured person".
On the Bitcoin side, there's also a software problem: we need a single, trivial-to-deploy application that does everything, modular if you like, but unified and well-documented. Not Bitcoin Core and LND and Alby Hub and Zeus... we need to be able to say, "Want your own bank? Right, go install ... | cargo build ... | uv install ... and you've already got what you need; nix develop if you want, or check your distro's package manager, you don't need anything else. If you want, put NGINX in front of it, but it's not necessary, you're up and running with just this app. Go to [::1]:12345 and you've got the web UI with your on-chain addresses, you create a Lightning channel on the fly, manage its liquidity, and you've also got the documentation, links to mobile Lightning wallets, logs, etc. You also find a textual dump of the config to makes anything easy reproducible. You don't need anything other than to study this single, cross-platform, well-documented project". That’s how you spread it to the masses; as it stands today, it's beyond the level of effort even most nerds are willing to put in, so people end up on CExs and living on someone else's services.
There's Umbrel, Start9, etc which is good, but it's still not enough and it's lagging behind because the people behind these distros are stuck in a bygone era without realising it; they don't offer a solid enough foundation for the end user.

2026-03-11 09:27:44 UTC

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A chopping board, cut at a sharp angle to get a useful shape and a good final surface, starting with a height of about 7cm using a chainsaw. Then, place it on a workbench and secure it by screwing it into the side. Set up two flat guides at the necessary height, and place a long enough board across them with a router mounted on top; use this to plane the rock-hard wood to a "mirror" finish. Once one side is done, flip it over and do the second. Use a chisel or the router itself to create a drip groove that ends in a drain at one end of the "ellipse".
Cut as shown in the photo, there isn't much else they can do. If you want, you can use wood carving discs (grinder discs, made like wood rasps for carving, dangerous to use, so be careful) to shape other things, for example, a stylised fruit bowl to be decorated later with a pyrography pen or chisel, but this requires much more skill than the chopping board and the practical daily use isn't great.
If there's still a long piece left and you like polenta, you can make a classic Italian "polenta stick", literally a stick about 80-90cm long, with a diameter that's comfortable to hold and a wider, flattened end. But carving it from a log requires a certain level of skill; you can even do it without a lathe by starting the cut with a chainsaw and then setting up a "DIY lathe" using a drill and a router. It's a long, frustrating job for a result that doesn't make much sense anymore now that we have self-stirring pots for polenta, but it can be done, just like you can make large kitchen spoons.

2026-03-10 07:31:11 UTC

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Nowadays, most people need a programmer, but big companies, just as they get rid of doctors to make way for less competent and therefore more docile paramedics, are looking for code monkeys. In the same way, sysadmins have largely been phased out in an attempt to have people who are easier to boss around. The result is that we no longer have anything new, and the number of constant problems is skyrocketing.

2026-03-09 22:17:28 UTC

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Being technically decentralised doesn't make it practically so. The Web is technically a hypertext, running on a partially interconnected mesh network, yet nowadays the bulk of traffic flows between a handful of giant hubs, to the point where "marginal" social networks stay that way simply due to a lack of critical mass, and not having an account on some giant's servers is a communication problem for many. We have, and consider normal, major communication systems that only talk to themselves. XMPP is decentralised by design, yet when it was popular, Google was the main player and its changes were adopted even if they were unsuitable for most, simply because they were needed to interoperate with it. When Google abandoned it, the users vanished and XMPP essentially died, having become irrelevant.
To put it another way, yes, Nostr is decentralised by design, but this peculiar design makes it practically centralised, and it is, or rather will be in the future if it succeeds, a problem. Just see Primal as an example.

2026-03-09 15:04:32 UTC

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I casually discover it :)
Not in a rush, I don't know how to contribute but I curiously observe hoping for a good progress because Nostr IMO have much potential, but lack some aspects to really succeed and loosing a potential success for just some issues well... It's a waste...

2026-03-09 15:02:34 UTC

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The problem I see is that messages aren't "evenly spread across the network" but are concentrated on a few relays, and it even happens that some replies only reach certain relays. The result is centralisation on the most popular relays.
The solution I see is the classic DHT, basically algorithmically spreading content across every node in the network, which will have storage and bandwidth quotas in its parameters. This leaves the administrator free to reject certain content or keep some in full, but fundamentally every message is split in chunks and some chunks are automatically spread across nodes. Historical examples include Usenet on one hand, as a decentralised paradigm, and eMule/KAD or ZeroNet for the distributed one.
The solution I see for further improvement is to not have "Nostr client only", but client+relay in a single package, with potential support for Tor or ZeroNet or something similar for those behind a NAT. Those with an exposed host can provide a way to punch through holes in NAT for those who don't, but basically every client is also a relay and blossom server.
I hope that's clearer now, and I don't see any bullshit or rudeness in what I'm writing. Meanwhile, as a fairly new user curious about Nostr and from the old-school *nix background, I see a tense community that's not very interested in the rest of the world, which isn't a good thing for achieving success.

2026-03-09 12:19:23 UTC

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I'm desktop (nearly) only... When on the go I'll try but it's a rare use. Most of the time (being full-remote worker) I'm on my desktop and since on NixOS I have only Gossip (broken since months) I tend to use web clients.
But I'd really dream of a wisp web built-in the MOAR :)

2026-03-09 12:14:39 UTC

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Idem, significa che anche su Nostr non siamo così marginali :)
Si, io in genere a chi scrive in inglese rispondo in inglese semplicemente perché non so qualche sia la madrelingua della controparte e ad oggi avendo vinto loro l'ultima guerra mondiale l'inglese è la lingua franca come prima lo era il francese...

2026-03-09 12:13:16 UTC

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Most users simply install a client with a set of pre-defined relays, those who don't anyway want got messages where there are the most crowds... If you are telling that's not a Nostr rule "you have to follow" that's definitively true, but what happen is an actual centralisation.

2026-03-08 17:55:44 UTC

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Contento di rispondere in Italiano :)
pesa questo: serve, in una fase iniziale, pesa bene questo inciso, puntare al bipede medio, quello che di IT sa nulla, installa l'app se il nome/lo screenshot lo convince e in 5" di prova decide se restare o mollare? Per me no. I dev correnti però puntano a questa demografia, più o meno consapevolmente.
Per me in una fase iniziale serve prendere "il linuxaro medio", il nerd, che ha un serverino domestico, spesso un modesto raspi o due, che sa qualcosa ma non oltre quel qualcosa, quindi qualcuno che vuole un'app unica, go get-abile, cargo build-abile, pip-abile, o già nei pacchetti della distro di turno, unica e sola, che faccia tutto. Non vuole scegliere un relay, scegliere un client, trovare che non c'è 'no straccio di documentazione su come configurare opportunamente il relay, che qui manca un server blossom, che li manca un filtraggio dello spam, che laggiù manca il supporto alla chat, ... poi vedere che gli serve coturn per poter aver l'audio, ... vuole un singolo pacchetto, che sia app desktop o webapp da servire via NGINX non importa, ma che sia unico e faccia tutto, client, relay, server blossom, chat, ICE/TURN/STUN ecc ecc ecc. Se c'è questo e vede che è carino, visivamente va bene come andrebbe XMPP/Matrix, ma qui si fa anche il blogghino personale, c'è pure la possibilità di far un ecommerce banale con gli zap, ma nessun obbligo di farlo beh allora quel singolo nerd che prova si tira dietro alcuni amici ed alcuni parenti e dopo un po' questi su scala raggiungono la massa critica necessaria a diventare anche pronti per l'utente-utonto.
Questo manca. Non solo in termini software ma proprio in termini di comprensione e interesse da parte dei dev. Nostr è pieno di progetti confezionati al volo e abbandonati, gente cordiale, che ha voglia di fare, ma non ha una visione d'insieme ed è abituata al modello commerciale delle megacorps dove non c'è il problema del lancio di qualcosa perché sono le PR che lo fanno, non i dev. Dove c'è un modello di rapporto "col cliente" ben diverso.
Cosa fa di buono Nostr?
- ha capito che il punto è comunicare testo, non html, testo semplice, al massimo MD o org-mode, tutto qui, il grosso della nostra informazione è testo dalle leggi agli sms passando per libri, giornali e post. Nostr offre comunicazione testuale come la offriva Usenet, ma con una UI assai più libera e accattivante. Come Usenet supporta anche contenuti multimediali, in maniera più efficiente dei gruppi binari. Supporta post brevi, cui manca una UI stile Lemmy/Reddit per aver successo, la rubrica distribuita modello Facebook/LinkedIn (questa c'è già), post lunghi (blog/siti personali), stanno più o meno arrivando le chat con anche audio e video
- ha anche un modello economico, non valido per i relay, valido per fare un web economico
Cosa manca:
- l'app unica, che sia client+server e che vuoi via Tor, vuoi via altro come ZeroNet, la vecchia rete KAD/eMule, ... permetta visibilità anche al nerd medio senza un nome a dominio, dietro NAT
- un design coerente di questa con un minimo di documentazione per il setup e l'uso
Senza questi non si andrà lontano. Ai margini il modello di decentralizzazione dei relay sovrani finisce come vuole la teoria delle reti in pochi grandi hub, quindi la decentralizzazione teorica salta, splittare e spargere l'informazione come faceva KAD/DHT in genere, IPFS, lasciando agli utenti giusto la scelta di pinnare contenuti "questi li vogliamo interi sul nostro ferro" e bannarne alcuni marcati esplicitamente "questi non li vogliamo" mentre il resto è solo una quantità massima di storage e banda a disposizione della rete, beh, senza questo non è vera decentralizzazione, si finisce con pochi giganti e tanti relay ignoti.

2026-03-08 17:40:50 UTC

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Well... Consider that Nostr is not really decentralized. The relay model means some large hub and many relays unseen by most, so actual substantial centralization without imposing it formally.
Nostr is awesome for many reasons, but it's not really decentralized. Largely ignoring both the ZeroNet failure lesson, the Usenet success lesson and the eMule/KAD model. If this not change Nostr will remain marginal unfortunately.

2026-03-08 08:01:33 UTC

https://realinvestmentadvice.com/resources/blog/usd-stable-coins-and-the-rebasement-of-the-us-dollar/ this article have a valid point: as long as people do not accept sat for common shopping BTCs are a game for giants not for retailers. Being tied to fiat for the last mile means being tied to fiat period.
That's the damn issue.

2026-03-08 07:59:49 UTC

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I dream a realistic usage over LoRa (BT is not usable for such purposes, since it's range is way too short geographically) but so far it's only a dream, there is way too little bandwidth for "a parallele P2P mesh internet"...

2026-03-07 19:08:52 UTC

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I have the same lack of trust in private banks and central banks, so well... For me a CBDC it's not worse than using a Visa. The issue with BTCs it's where I can spend: most merchants around me do not accept SATs and using crypto cards is using Visa/Mastercard so not much safer.
That's the damn real issue: so far crypto cards works well, we can spend vintage SATs with peace of mind. BUT there's no guarantee this will last, and once you take away Visa/Mastercard, until the majority of shops accept native SATs, even having 100k BTC isn't unfortunately going to save you. It's fine for sovereign states selling oil, other raw materials, or industrial products, but for the average person who just wants to live their life, buying the food they need, maybe a car and so on, it's a massive problem.
As long as you have to go through fiat currency one way or another, your freedom, even if it's slightly greater (you have "your bank safe and sound"), is still limited.

2026-03-07 18:56:25 UTC

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That's a broader problem in Nostr design: clients need to be relays too in a single app, so we don't end up with such massive imbalances between giant relays and tiny ones. Otherwise, Nostr will be decentralised in name only; in practice, it'll be just like XMPP, which was popular as long as Google Messenger (I can't remember the exact name) used it, and then pretty much vanished once they stopped.
Unfortunately, I fear there's no real desire to understand how to structure a truly decentralised network. We do need entities to help with NAT traversal, absolutely, because many people are behind NAT, but then clients should simply have a default setting for storage and bandwidth available to the network being relays as well. We could have WoT filtering if we want, or explicit blocking of someone's content (even using DBACL and the like) if we want, but the rest should be decided algorithmically and spread out. Evolving towards a handful of major hubs while the rest of the relays remain obscure isn't decentralisation, it's the death from the start.
At some point, some big relay will be bought out by some who want to censor; most people will stay there anyway because that's where the bulk of other humans are, and you'll get the same effect we're seeing with Reddit compared to Lemmy.

2026-03-07 08:54:18 UTC

https://virginiabusiness.com/blackrock-limits-withdrawals-private-credit-fund/ another quake in finance, BlackRock limit withdrawals from it's HPS Corporate Lending Fund (26bn), Blackstone forced to inject 400M to avoid the crac. Others private equities suffer as well (Blue Owl Capital, KKR, Carlyle Group, Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, TPG Inc etc).
After REITs now the "golden haven" of private credit prove to be not a haven at all...

2026-03-06 21:36:15 UTC

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Probably very true, but also the BTC entry barrier (to be sovereign) it's not that good, especially for Lightning. We have a certain cohort of power users who understand the risk of depending on others, but when they see how much they need to study and try to setup "their own bank" at home they give up.
These power users are needed to attract others. Apps on someone else systems might work in some third world countries who are anyway largely better then anything else, but not in developed countries...
Umbrel/Start9 are good, but marginal, BTCPay Server is complex, a simple unique "app" easy to deploy on GNU/Linux homeservers, easy to administer declaratively and via a webui it's largely missing. In the west still nearly nobody had real baking issues so they are not much interesting to change without such an easy and sovereign entry barrier. Too many abandoned projects, too little docs, so many scam scary many. Those who enter years ago when "entering" means just few fiat for many BTC takes the risk easily, now with current exchange rates things are different.

2026-03-06 08:55:17 UTC

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To clean things up, we need a different barrier to entry: we need a decentralised Nostr that's usable by newbies with a bit minimal technical skills straight out of the box. In other words, not a client for someone else's services (relay), but a single application that connects locally to a network, bypassing NAT as best it can, acting as both client and server (relay). The user shouldn't have to worry about relay lists, only about how much storage and bandwidth they're willing to give to the network.
This is what made eMule and KAD so successful, and it's exactly what we need today, from file sharing to sharing text-based information in a new web that's no longer client-server or heavily dependent on browsers.
I fear, however, that many modern devs don't understand or even know this model, having been born and raised on the broken IT of Big Tech. Consequently, they can't work in a world that's unknown to them because, even with all the right skills, they still lack the awareness of a different model, its necessity, and the opportunity it presents.

2026-03-05 07:55:25 UTC

Toward the Org Mode future: distributed notebooks: https://chrismaiorana.com/org-mode-notes-publishing/
I dream org-mode integrate Nostr and vice versa, meaning Nostr client (Emacs included) could render org-mode (maybe 200ok.ch lib could help) to really makes the new web of information, people, the new Usenet, (re)born.

2026-03-05 07:53:35 UTC

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Re-read https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/255104/clean-break-seven-wars-chaotic-middle-east and the older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan things will be much more clear AND simple.
Add https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Countries-with-the-Largest-Oil-Reserves_Web_01052026-1.webp to clarify better

2026-03-04 19:08:48 UTC

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Me personally I use Radicle, I've not tried ngit, but the little I read is not that attiring compared, what I miss from such a quick scrape?

2026-03-04 10:15:55 UTC

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I think current Bitcoin mini-bull run is exactly due to this: many have seen their stock market trading restricted, disrupted, or completely blocked in various countries around the world; some have even seen withdrawals frozen by various banks, limits placed on international transfers, and so on, and have perhaps begun to realise that something not controlled by specific third parties is needed to be able to move funds with reasonable security.

2026-03-02 21:39:18 UTC

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To be honest, I'm watching. I'm not convinced this is a mini bull run driven by bullish investors. I see it more as a search for an asset that can't be frozen by banks or brokers. Right now, the trading operations of many banks and brokers are limited, and various "glitches", which coincidentally happen much more often now than during the rest of the year, are, in my opinion, making a lot of people think: "Yeah, well, I've got assets in my portfolio, it's just that I don't actually hold the portfolio; a third party does, and they pretty much do whatever they want with it," so they're looking for alternatives.
You'd have to be a right mug to think this war will be over in a flash, and by now, most people that gullible have already been rinsed, so they've got no money left to invest. Sure, there are windfall profits from weapons and oil, and those making them know full well such profits won't last for various reasons, so they're trying to diversify and move into assets safer than TradFi or fiat currency, but that's not enough. The fact that gold is dropping at the same time makes me think people are specifically looking for something that can't be blocked, knowing full well that most gold is held in ETCs, basically virtual gold...
We'll have to wait and see; a short squeeze is possible.

2026-03-02 21:28:23 UTC

A scrap of thought on Bitcoin in extreme crisis situations.
The crux of the matter is simple: the bulk of the population, those trading most goods and services in IRL economy, don't use BTC, don't own any SATs, and don't have a wallet. This means that to use BTC, they have to go through third parties that handle the conversion to fiat via payment cards. It's a heavy dependency, not much different from the one you have with fiat money in a bank.
Of course, BTC crosses every border, so if one country blocks it, you can hope to go to another and operate there with your own non-seizable funds. But for things like eating every day, paying for travel, and so on well, they probably won't be usable for that in most countries.
So I see BTC as a refuge, like a pirate's chest buried on a remote island to be touched only in an emergency, a bit of activity for personal exploration or speculation aside, but they aren't enough spread for life security in a bad crisis (like war). Gold coins for short-term use are still useful, as is local fiat currency, and that's frustrating because technically the infrastructure is there. Despite many issues, from on-chain TPS and fees to many Lightning payments failing, it exists. However, without sufficient adoption, we can't reach the level of protection possible for all of us.
What do you think? What kind of "fire sale" portfolios do you consider sensible, asset by asset?

2026-03-02 17:14:17 UTC

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I'd be careful with a statement like that: yes, formally we have a massive amount of information accessible in the form of hypertext, searchable via "refined" keyword-based search engines and LLMs, and right there we have a bit of a problem. We have almost nothing in the way of "unbiased" search engine solutions, YaCy is one example, but it's too small to have enough coverage for real-world web use. Yes, we also have electronic currency, like Bitcoin, but even today it's accepted by very few; there are services that convert it on the fly into fiat with Visa/Mastercard cards behind them, but also these are SPOFs with a significant chain of dependencies, and we've had plenty of lessons like those of WikiLeaks, the anti-Trudeau protesters in Canada, Francesca Albanese, and the many others like her who have been similarly economically blocked by the EU, and so on.
Things aren't going much better on the hardware front either: we have x86 (open platform even if not open hardware) which is fairly widespread to be sourced, sure, but it's also getting harder and harder to build decent PCs due to the cost of graphics cards, RAM, and NVMEs, not to mention the mere sheer shortages that make it difficult to buy what you actually need, and often what you do get is of increasingly poor quality. The push towards mobile, which consists of closed SoCs and basebands that are even proprietary by law, is stifling. More and more people, especially for children and students, are giving in and being handed connected spying systems, essentially mobile junk instead of FLOSS desktops.
It's no better at a public level: public administrations are increasingly imposing digital identities and mobile-only services, forcing citizens into a dependency on these tracking proprietary devices. We've already seen what happens at border crossings with this hardware and the consequences we can suffer if it's simply blocked or remotely manipulated in various ways, starting with basic Lightning payments: we can pay on-chain using an (open) hardware wallet, but with Lightning that's not necessarily the case, which implies a dependency on mobile devices that aren't ours but belong to the OEM, giant US and Chinese players, and so on.
To conclude, technologically speaking, I quite agree that we could be in an era of progress and well-being; the fact is, however, that we aren't, due to the deliberate choice of four kleptocrats who are busy feeding a vast mass of Le Bonian bipedal cattle. Knowing ourselves isn't enough to protect us much, nor to protect our children, because while we can do a bit, we still depend on society for so much. Even if we became farmers in a remote hermitage, certain that we'd never need healthcare, or have emergencies we couldn't handle alone, etc we still couldn't really manage physical defence against hostile states. You might deal with a thief, but police and armed forces are impossible to manage on an individual or small community scale.
Homeschooling makes it possible to reduce state indoctrination, and forming individuals who think for themselves and share their family's knowledge is a good thing, but it isn't enough to protect them.

2026-03-02 15:54:16 UTC

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Actually the war was planned since at least 1982, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan superseded by https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/255104/clean-break-seven-wars-chaotic-middle-east and see the last decades nazi wars. It's not Trump, it's an old colonial plan from UK zionist, or nazi, because their ideology is the original nazism.
The reason is https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Countries-with-the-Largest-Oil-Reserves_Web_01052026-1.webp given the slow advance of electrification and the fact that the new deal technologically demand small spread buildings with p.v., batteries in self-consumption using the grid only to rechange batteries in a negotiated manner to keep the load reasonably stable and not excessive, while the nazi want anyone owning nothing except them: http://web.archive.org/web/20161206153258/https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/ with people as smart as the expression of the main character of this video suggest https://youtu.be/Hx3DhoLFO4s they admit the Smart City tentative is a failure, they are technically impossible on scale: https://www.clubofrome.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Transforming-the-Built-Environment.pdf but they refuse to surrender to tech evidence. So they need more oil for the near future (10-20+ years) hoping to find a way to keep people enslaved owning nothing instead of accept Distributism (economical theory from the early '900), since tech now impose this.
They refuse to admit that is tech the one who shape civilization, and they prefer to makes so many die instead of evolve. As every Luddites they'll fails, but not without rivers of blood. Most people fails to understand that and oppose any change in fear following them. And that's the current toxic mix who have already generate disasters then revolutions.

2026-03-02 11:21:16 UTC

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2026-03-02 09:30:43 UTC

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Translate this old (1894) discourse from a seven-time Italian Ministry of Edu: https://web.archive.org/web/20210424055431/https://www.cronologia.it/storia/tabello/tabe1530.htm the core is
We must only teach reading and writing; common people should be educated just enough, teaching history with a healthy nationalistic slant, and reducing all sciences to a single subject of "general knowledge", without any precise syllabus or textbooks, leaving room for the teacher's initiative and re-evaluating the noblest and oldest form of teaching: domestic education. Finally, we must set aside anti-dogmatism, the education of doubt and criticism; in short, just make them read and write. They mustn't Otherwise there'll be big troubles!
-- Guido Baccelli
BTW is also useful to quote Cardinal Carlo Carafa (1517 - 1561) "vulgus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur" or the people want to be deceived, so let them be.

2026-03-02 09:21:29 UTC

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Maybe less. Many Nostr projects is designed by younger devs simply seen the design choices, I can't give substantial data to support my claim but as a gamble I think more 28-30 as a realist center of the gaussian for age.

2026-03-02 09:12:12 UTC

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Given the modern network theory any network evolve toward few large hubs, so well... Personally I prefer having less control on my node, meaning just set storage and bandwidth limits, while the algorithm spread chunks of information that individually can't be identified as "illegal", so I have anything I want to have (things I publish or reshare), but I still offer some storage to the network and no one but a DHT control it.
Doing so allow to reduce the hub phenomenon and offer an easier way for newcomers to self-host, like the old eMule/KAD network. A client is also a relay over Tor or something else, the user define the limit. Web clients open to all are just a choice of some.

2026-03-01 20:35:11 UTC

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A small notes: many seems to ignore that Semitic peoples are also many non-Hebrew ones. And zionist are not Hebrew but a small cohort of them.
Between the Semitic there are:
- various non-Hebrew arabs
- Maronites
- various Syriac cohorts
- Amhara and Tigrinya's (Ethiopia and Eritrea)
- some Maltese cohorts
So well... Anyone who state that anti-zionists are "anti-semite" simply ignore the meaning of this word. Me personally though to be more clear I call certain people simply nazist, since that's their political root.

2026-03-01 19:18:42 UTC

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Nice but... Please no AI, and an ethernet port. Many will never self-host on generic iron, but could buy ready made iron with FLOSS on top as a fw, so that's a very nice idea, adding LLM though even if "local" it's a big minus for many and be wifi only is not good for some as well. A WebUI served in LAN would be nice, since voice commands can't really be a useful UI beside the wow effect for common folks.
Many exchanges offer APIs to trade with them, supporting some and allow operation could be a kind of features completeness selling to common folks "this device is FLOSS, well hardened, you can operate on some exchange and keep you own bank/your assets monitored". Optional ASIC with bitcoin core + Lightning node set up like Umbrel/Start9 would be also nice additions. A compact "personal bank" at home.

2026-03-01 19:10:11 UTC

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I do, and I agree, but I also hope for a reborn DHT love from devs, so to spread contents everywhere, limited only by quotas instead of allowing relays to select who allow in and who not. Content well chunkified, so not complete on a single relay if the relay owner do not want it (for legal reasons for instance) but still replicated enough also protecting the relay owner from local laws. For instance I may became liable for some illegal content if I have it entirely but if they are just some chunks I can't control, and as chunks useless I'm not much liable. This will solve the concentration problem Nostr have on few large relays and many small nearly ignored by most, their owner included, since publishing there is just a backup, since nobody else use them so nobody else could possibly get messages.

2026-03-01 15:51:51 UTC

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There is a plan, but most ignore it, as they ignore that wars are decided in decades these days, not quickly, because we haven't anymore an immense amount of soldiers and stockpiled resources as in the past: just (re)discover the https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/255104/clean-break-seven-wars-chaotic-middle-east or the original plan if you prefer a longer from https://www.dougfeith.com/docs/Clean_Break.pdf also discover that this plan wasn't that new but a successor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan
The trace the last wars around the globe to mark the checklist of the above plans.

2026-03-01 15:41:11 UTC

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Emacs shows how to craft a very diverse and flexible system still without UX issues :D
Beside that Nostr is "an everything network" so it's normal that clients should be " everything apps", and any modern everything app beside Emacs and Smalltalk from the ancient PARC, is actually limited by the underlying UI/UX limited and limiting model.
Nostr could be:
- a blog platform, so those who want to blog well... Need a web skeleton like WriteFreely or Hugo to build their own personal Nostrsite
- a generic discussion platform, so something like Lemmy/Reddit is equally desired
- a distributed address book, or rather a social network for humans in the style of Facebook and classic phone books
- a direct textual messaging platform, long form as emails, posts as chat messages
- a media sharing platform, for video, audio and images, so a gallery, player, playlist manager is a nice addition to have, supporting both private usage (like Jellyfin, Immich etc) and public sharing
- an economic platform, the web3 who succeeded, not just limited to few-sat zaps but also substantial jobs with the "blog/website" mentioned early who are also job boards like UpWork, MTurk etc
- for chats, nowadays people expect also VoIP call, so a TURN/STUN etc servers + the needed UI is in the wishlist of many...
- for easier management a single integrated Nostr app-service including bitcoin core and lightning node to be fully sovereign on our own homeservers is also in the wishlist of many
- since many have no knowledge to deploy homeservers BUT have some friends who have one with Nostr a web client with all the above stuff for them as well is on the dreams of many
IMVHO the current Nostr problem is that there are a gazillion of projects started as experiments with no clear vision where to go, often abandoned, so most stay away because they do not know what to do and while interested have not enough docs to understand what to do for themselves. A "reference implementation" with the above stuff, maybe "modular enough" to allow third party features on the same codebase could be a gamechanger, like Matrix vs XMPP where Matrix succeed over XMPP even if technically not much nice just because they offer "a complete package" others with little knowledge of the project could get and play with.
This is not mobile of course, but could be as app on phone + webapp/service on homeserver. Try for a lower entry barrier for casual users it's a no go because they simply cost too much for a FLOSS project who start to have filled up blossom servers. A geek easy game to start could spread enough to push more people in at a peace slow enough not to clogs the public servers.

2026-02-28 22:52:31 UTC

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Alt on average replicate BTC/fiat prices, but with larger movement, so if BTCEUR is +2% alt on average are +8% and vice versa. As a result IF you time the market correctly you earn more, unfortunately unless you have a working time machine, timing the market is just a gamble.
Some decide to risk and even if most alts loose value in the mid and long run they sell and re-buy short waiting for the next short spike. It's not much less a gamble then prediction markets but people with not too much try the all-in game hoping instead of computing.

2026-02-28 21:28:43 UTC

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I suggest re-discovering https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/255104/clean-break-seven-wars-chaotic-middle-east and the even older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan maybe followed by https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Countries-with-the-Largest-Oil-Reserves_Web_01052026-1.webp
Things will be more clear thereafter...

2026-02-28 15:28:34 UTC

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https://gizmodo.com/google-pixel-10a-is-the-same-damn-phone-as-pixel-9a-2000722838

2026-02-28 13:55:18 UTC

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FLOSS releases are always a good thing, but for me, this app is a hard pass. Firstly, if you're an activist during social unrest, the last thing you should be doing is using a smartphone, let alone having it on you when you're on the move; it's a top-tier spying tool and it's not the formal human owner who's in control of it.
Besides... it sounds a lot like a service for the US government to facilitate colour revolutions in other people's backyards. Not something I'd touch; as an old expert criminal politician used to say, "having the US as an enemy is a risk, having them as an ally is fatal".
Having a name similar to the Bitcoin ecosystem doesn't make it any good.

2026-02-28 13:49:45 UTC

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desperate for war, to save themselves from their subject (people) raged revenge...

2026-02-27 11:55:31 UTC

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I agree, but... When the governing cohort is too small it's called dictatorship, when the middle class meaning those who are active in society, engaged, interested, are to few even in democracy at maximum we can call oligarchy.
I think most have no hope, but if we could nurture those who can we can evolve, if they are to few and scattered intelligence decrease (as it do since some decades apparently) because intelligence, knowledge it's the sole natural resource who grow with usage and decline otherwise.
Me personally I'm convinced we could escape, as humanity, since we are here since centuries and we have always make it. But for the arc of my life, for the foreseeable future I'm not really optimistic at all...
When we loose, and that's already almost lost, much basic knowledge, rebuild it with some giants who still possess it and fight for their own power as anyone else is an extremely hard task. Nostr if very nice but I see in it's current state of development the issue of "modern techies" who do not really know "old school FLOSS" and so fails to design/deliver something in a shape apt to spread effectively, the basic tech is there, the engine, the controls, but the cockpit is nearly missing and that's an issue. Similarly for cryptos in general nearly anything is essentially there but still it's missed the quid needed to convince a sufficiently vast cohort of people to became mainstream for the masses, not just for few.

2026-02-27 08:36:30 UTC

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EU subjects, because there are few of us who are actually Citizens, are letting things slide just as they’ve let everything else slide until now... After all, while most people grasp the concept of owning a physical good, like a fork or a car, they don't get it when it comes to digital assets, just as they don't understand propaganda and its effects from big media platforms, whether it's social media, movies, or music, or news. They simply follow the herd.
Apple has already announced age verification on iDevices, and Nazis 2.0 everywhere in the world are pushing for it similarly; it's a process to shift the Overton window of acceptability for the common folk. First, they try an extreme test case; it fails, but that doesn't matter because it's created a precedent. Then, they start taking little pieces of it and turning them into structural elements, and most people accept them, the shock of the experiment has passed and the small change becomes the norm. Another will be added, then another, and slowly they'll return to that initial rejected shock, but this time it'll be fully accepted and seen as the new normal.
Paradoxically, Nostr would have what it takes to move people away from the big platforms, something the Fediverse doesn't have and never has had, but until there are mature solutions, until there's some player selling pre-installed FLOSS hardware+software (yes, we have Umbrel, Start9, we even have FriggHome, but they aren't where they need to be yet) so the average citizen can say "wow, I can do cool things at home, I need them" and buy the package with a domain name, DynDNS, to truly build their own infra with little knowledge required, the big leap won't happen. And the expensive hardware, first video cards, then RAM, now NVMEs, proves it; it's designed to take away cheap, widely available computing right now, just as interest is starting to pick up together with the possibility.

2026-02-26 10:13:32 UTC

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Me personally (using Haven) I'd really like an WebUI for management (storage and stats mainly, like seen what's in Blossom and easy delete something with classic lists and checkboxes + eventual regex/query search) and a client built-in so one can deploy a single application and have all setup in a single shot: "just install Haven, go to localhost:port and start reading, publishing, managing your Nostr garden", the need of separate stuff kill newcomers interests IMVHO.
The client itself well, could be very rich, like a public blog face (long form), a Reddit/Lemmy-like face (short form), a contact manager for Nostr as a digital identity, a chat UI, tomorrow adding VoIP as a module maybe, than some long form became a Wiki, some short form tasks with a management UI like Vikunja and a step at a time "the modern personal web" became Nostr.
A long journey the humanity really need :)

2026-02-26 10:06:21 UTC

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The issue with Lightning is mainly the channel capacity, most people fails to understand even the physical wallet limited-capacity metafore because an empty physical wallet can still be filled, there is no need of an initial "fill-up to the desired maximum", the user-facing complexity is simply too much for average Joe and the channel issues of those who choose third parties does not help.
BUT on the other side the crappy IT of banks and fintech, limits and fees, push anyway people to look for something else. Who will prevail and when it's still to be seen.

2026-02-25 23:21:00 UTC

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Even if used in the physical world, Bitcoin is necessarily traded online, so it’s still the currency of the internet, even if it's not that widespread yet, he have VPS sold on SAT, crypto card to pay in fiat from BTC etc it's not that bad all given. Nostr has the potential to really spread it IF it becomes visible to a large enough portion of the population, and to do that, it has to offer apps (clients) with features that attract the masses. For now, the skeleton is there, but the shells built on top of it are still too crude for the general public.
In my opinion, it's no coincidence that we're seeing the strongest wave of censorship on various commercial platforms alongside expensive hardware, age verification, and so on from a regulatory standpoint. It's a way to take IT away from the masses just as they were starting to get fed up with the commercial model and look for alternatives, alternatives that were starting to be within reach of users who aren't exactly tech-savvy. That’s the hurdle. It’s not about being the currency of the internet; it’s about reaching a model of widespread desktop and home servers computing for many, as opposed to the commercial model pushing mobile for all. It's about having a personal mini-server instead of an ISP router, an Umbrel/Start9 style setup distro + iron, preinstalled, complete with its own Lightning node, bundled with a few hardware wallets to use via NFC at POS terminals to pay for even a coffee in SATs. Then it will be a widespread currency, because the average person doesn't care about the tech nor understand digital ownership, but they do understand, at least a little, when they're in a cage, and if they find an easy way out, they'll take it.
As of today, that easy way out doesn't exist for most people, but we're relatively close.

2026-02-25 23:10:31 UTC

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> the private key of the transaction proves that the transaction was made;
They are useless if you can't enforce the other party to comply. How can you enforce it?
> Freedom > security. At that moment, I realized you were a leftist.
Yes, Freedom is more important than security but the lack of security typically led to the lack of freedom as well, the point is not creating a dominus for security, we would get none of both, the point is creating ties who makes bad actors unable to act without significant consequences.
About poor OpSec: it's simply life, we are all off guard sometimes, no matter how careful we are.
I was born in a red and progressive environment, then I evolve and I recognize modern "socialism" as nazism, I see taxes as theft, but I'm also study economics and I understand that civil servant must be payed: how could you pay them? A toll per every single road, like in vast part of the EU in the middle age? Health care? The USA are largely private and have the most expensive and LEAST effective health service in the west, Italy is the cheapest and the more public in the EU.
Long story short: I've learnt the limits of "too simple" ideas from left and right and I see how people *beveling* in left/right ideology fails to accept the limit and really engage and that's a problem.

2026-02-25 13:55:16 UTC

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Actually I've switched to Haven relay who have WoT built-in and seems to work enough but... I should wait at leas some months to see it will work as expected or not...

2026-02-25 13:17:27 UTC

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Sorry for the delay, for some reason I missed the message...
Anyway, I gave an example of why tracking is useful: the well-known case of bitcoiners being kidnapped and tortured to force them to transfer BTCs. If the payment is completely anonymous, well, no one can ever find the culprit. If it's possible to track them, they can be caught. But this also applies at much simpler levels: you pay a company to do a job, they do it but it's defective, or conversely, they do the work and don't get paid. Without the ability to know the counterparty's solvency, anything that can't be handled entirely online via smart contracts with escrows etc is simply a gamble.
One might say, "yeah, but if you don't know how much money someone has, what are you going to do, just start kidnapping people at random hoping to hit someone rich?" but the answer is easy, no matter how much you try to maintain a modest lifestyle, if you have some cushion, it shows. You don't live in a pigsty if you can afford to live well, because you only live once. It doesn't mean you'll drive around in a Pagani flashing a Patek Philippe on your wrist or offer vintage Château Pétrus to the delivery guy, but it'll still be obvious you have something, making you a potential target. On a larger scale, we either turn things into the Wild West, where everyone is armed and ready to defend themselves, or we create a society where the need for self-defense is marginal. The State isn't necessarily a dominus, a Hobbesian Leviathan; it can also be a Democracy if, for example, you implement on-chain voting and create a government structure that isn't oppressive, but still has a role. It has a role in road maintenance, public healthcare where it exists, defense... this role has a cost, and that cost has to be managed somehow.
As of today, I strongly agree with the concept of The Network State, but it stops at the point of coming into existence; it doesn't describe the "after", how to maintain a free society once it born. That's where you arrive at a form of State. To make it truly free, it simply needs to be something shared, with limited power, under the control of the majority, but it must exist. On average, we're honest, but that's just on average, not everyone, not all the time, and you need safeguards in place. Creating a system where it's impossible to be dishonest is a pipe dream; you strive for it as best you can, but it remains an utopia. So, you have to find compromises to live well.

2026-02-25 09:51:16 UTC

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Honestly, more than just a chat, what's needed is a unified app for Nostr. Haven (relay + blossom server in a single Go app) has somewhat started this trend. It should include a WebUI relay admin+client featuring notes, posts, and chat, along with perhaps separate modules for audio and video based on XMPP rather than MurMur/Mumble, using Nostr identities to create a single all-in-one app:
- personal website (the web client open to everyone with organized long-form notes)
- chat
- VoIP
- media store (private and public)
This is what's needed for personal/family and, eventually, business communications (for SMEs) in the modern world, outside of Big Tech. Integrating Radicle/creating a Nostr one as well in the future will complete the game "deploy this single easy to go install app on your homeserver and you get all you need", future development might add task management, kanboard, ... à-la-Vikunja, a Lightning node, bringing zap economy to FLOSS as well for the masses. But the key is integration. People today go for Discord, Reddit, ... because self-hosting Matrix, XMPP etc is nightmarish. Nostr providing identities and notes and zaps offer the core, but lack a unified approach with something maintained and easy to deploy that most classic geeks could easily deploy and test, then spread.

2026-02-25 09:40:23 UTC

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I agree: the "family recipe" represents the greatest plurality of ideas we can have in society, a vision that, by biological necessity, must merge with a different one at every generational hand-off. Some ideas will survive, while others will recede in the game of evolution.
The conformism of third-party schooling serves to reduce this plurality of views, damaging society and knowledge itself by creating flesh-and-blood bots, like https://nostr.kfx.fr/pic/stepIntoYourPlace.jpg something that is also a basic necessity, in the sense that not every family has the cultural background to pass on; therefore, relying on third parties is a way to ensure the child makes a cultural leap beyond the parent. However, it's a necessity that must be balanced between family culture and the need for outside knowledge due to a lack of personal gnosis.
Over time, I've realized that even though I was born into progressive leftist circles, and while I remain absolutely progressive, I'm becoming increasingly anti-collectivist. Today, collectivism is about as leftist as Hitler and Mussolini were; it's not for the general population, but for the handful of people at the top of the social pyramid who own (nearly) everything ensuring the masses have (nearly) nothing. It's the perfect synthesis of the historical social experiments of Socialism and Nazism united in modern neoliberalism, which I call Nazism 2.0 because that's where its ideological roots lie.

2026-02-24 22:36:24 UTC

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Nazi ideas born in UK and USA, grown in Germany. They wasn't enemies, the reich was a social experiment like Soviet Union, with a simple purpose: steal resources from continental western Europe, the richest place on Earth back them.
The plan was and still is always the same:
- use corruption to establish a dictatorship in the target country
- profit from the rising dictatorship so much that you help it achieve greatness
- when it tries to get rid of its kingmaker, use that same corruption and the economy to lay the groundwork for its ruin
- step in as liberators and start the game all over again.
What happen in the contemporary Ukraine, Iran, in Afganistan back then, in Cile, ... is the very same plot repeated.

2026-02-24 00:32:14 UTC

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Do remember that Mexican Gov. recently say no to USA one and Fentanyl from China was an issue for the USA. It also could be a CIA-backed color revolution...

2026-02-24 00:31:02 UTC

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Sure, but... DEx exists only online, so they simply can't go beyond software, IRL there is no software. A smart-contract is as it was programmed to be, a real-life contract could be interpreted, breached and so on.

2026-02-22 10:41:59 UTC

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Congrats on the release and obviously thanks for creating and sharing the project.
I'm going to shamelessly hijack the post for a personal issue: I can't get Haven to work; it responds correctly on localhost, but behind NGINX it returns an Error 400. It's the same NGINX configuration I use for Strfry, basically the same one recommended in the Haven documentation. The core of the issue seems to be "Upgrade: websocket" like
curl -v --http1.1 -H "Host: nostr.kfx.fr" \
-H "Upgrade: websocket" \
-H "Connection: Upgrade" \
http://127.0.0.1:21498
that fails whereas
curl -v --http1.1 -H "Host: nostr.kfx.fr" \
-H "Connection: Upgrade" \
http://127.0.0.1:21498
works. However, I can't get any useful info from the logs, neither on the NGINX side (which is passing requests correctly) nor on the Haven side.
I'm looking for any idea, Haven is really a Haven to run Nostr at home...

2026-02-15 16:19:10 UTC

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L'uomo comune si sveglia solo dopo essersi bruciato le dita. Sinché non si trovano un C/C bloccato in banca non sentono il bisogno di mollar la banca, sinché i prodotti di banca inculia gli rendono meno dell'inflazione ma vedono comunque un segno più restano li. Solo quando capiscono di essersi bruciati le dita muovono e spesso senza saper dove andare, così prendono altre scottature e scappano ancora.

2026-02-15 16:15:30 UTC

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Ci vorrebbe la conoscenza, io me medesimo BTC lo conosco da illo tempore, ma lavoro nell'IT (sysadmin) e ho scoperto Nostr per caso poco tempo fa, sto ancora sperimentando, il grosso dei colleghi non l'ha mai sentito nominare, ancora non ho un mio nodo Lightning e quindi non uso Lightning che tanto dove vivo non avrei un uso a parte zap-are on Nostr purtroppo, ad oggi c'è tantissimo codice che sembra scritto di getto senza idee troppo strutturate/chiare e poi abbandonato e questo non incentiva molto i più. Solo la gestione della liquidità di un nodo Lightning è qualcosa che per il bipede medio è poco comprensibile. Chi è attivo in community FLOSS ci si aspetta capisca e sappia, ma oggi come oggi non è granché più così, oggi i dev spesso han conoscenze iper-limitate perché vengono da percorsi accademici obsoleti (io stesso, ing. informatico, se mi fossi limitato all'uni non saprei far praticamente nulla) e non han visto manco granché sul lavoro, dove l'IT è quasi sempre pessimamente organizzato e spesso malvisto, vissuto come un male necessario.

2026-02-15 16:01:16 UTC

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GM! I see not much negativity on Nostr, just many simply do not know it exists and are confused by many (often unfinished/abandoned) clients and not much better relays for self-hosting... Nostr IMVHO need a single app, go install-able, pip-able, cargo build-able who is:
- a relay for self hosting
- a WebUI for manage the relay
- a client to post short and long form notes
- a media storage for images/video one might want to attach/show in notes
- a contacts manager, allowing exporting/importing vcards and obviously with Nostr npub integration
- a "mail-on-nostr" client, meaning notes ciphered with the recipient's public key if he/she/it is on Nostr
- a "blog-on-nostr" with a public WebUI that could be served locally/proxyed by NGINX/*
There is almost anything already, only not packaged in a single, easy-to-deploy (especially for those who have zero Nostr knowledge), compact app, also easy for distro packagers. Without such "easy entry barrier for geeks and techies" it's hard to became popular.

2026-02-15 15:53:14 UTC

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Interesting, considering that the money to "pay back" the "debt" do not exists, and they could be created by loan, in USA since 2020 without limits, in EU 1% fractional reserve (meaning the bank could create 99€ per any € it have)...

2026-02-15 08:22:16 UTC

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/14/why-more-men-should-be-on-viagra/
Benefit came from the drug, or from the sex? 'cause we do not need the drug if the came from the sex...

2026-02-14 16:27:11 UTC

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I see no reasons to restrict freedom of expression, but I see some for privacy. A small example: let's say you've done some work for someone and they haven't paid you. You go to court and win your case: who can force them to pay what is owed, and how?
I can imagine using escrow, sure, but it's not straightforward because, depending on the type of work, locking up the full funds upfront isn't that easy. Likewise, it's not always easy to estimate the total cost in advance, and in other cases, it's hard to define when the work has been completed correctly so that the funds can be released. How do you manage all that while remaining completely anonymous?
If we play with our cards relatively open on the table, the issue of information asymmetry doesn't arise; if everyone knows everything about everyone else, or if no one knows anything about anyone else, it isn't a major social problem. The problem occurs when some people know almost everything, while others know almost nothing about those who know almost everything.
If we eliminate that asymmetry, I don't see much in the way of "limits" to privacy. There's obviously a long way to go from here to having cameras even in the bathroom as Larry Ellison wants, and in that case, what he wants is clearly asymmetrical, because some people have the cameras and access to the videos while everyone else has to wear them. Where the game is played, rules as code, public blockchain, well, I don't see it as being that problematic.

2026-02-14 12:12:46 UTC

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People, do as I say, not as I do!
-- ancient motto...

2026-02-14 12:10:41 UTC

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> i expect the rise of ai will result in massive job loss
Mh, personally, I'm not really convinced: the bulk of the current layoffs are due to the general economic crisis and automation where ML has little to do with it. It's a factor, but the majority is just plain automation that was possible decades ago but was never really implemented due to IT ignorance. Put simply, bank staff are being laid off because we use internet banking and there's hardly any cash or cheques etc. left, so having a physical place called a "bank" scattered across the country no longer makes sense.
Then of course, translators are losing their jobs because an LLM can do the work of 10 of them, with only one remaining to act as a proofreader, but let's just say I don't see it quite the way it's often portrayed today.
As it stands, I don't think LLMs are much more than a Stochastic Parrot essentially the implementation of Conrad Gessner's dream of a universal library, where books are shredded and you can find only the snippets of information you want within the mass. We're starting to see automation in this area, but with what's available today, it doesn't go much further than that.
> increased economic inequality, more big tech surveillance and control
That's very obvious and LLM will help because of
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/1116779/ai-can-do-a-better-job-of-persuading-people-than-we-do/
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61345-5
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13919
> all of which leads to societal conflict
Very yes but just the social fracture between those who live in the present vs those who are stuck in the past suffice, economic crisis to impoverish the most will do the rest.
> open source ai tech will empower those of us who demand freedom while chaos provides opportunity if we recognize it early and seize it
As it stands, we are in an extremely fragile situation; while it is technically very accessible today to set up a personal home server and ditch every other service besides the internet connection, it is also becoming increasingly expensive due to high hardware costs. It is also quite unapproachable because the bulk of recent FLOSS projects lack a systemic vision. Nostr itself could potentially do a great deal, but buggy clients, numerous semi-abandoned relay implementations, and the lack of a "single self-hosted application that does everything" vision, an Emacs model for the network, well... Cut out a huge portion of the potential audience...
Fundamentally, I quite agree that we ought to ENFORCE FLOSS and open hardware, but what I see is that most people are becoming less and less capable of being autonomous, and society is doing everything it can to enslave them, with massive success compared to the past.
> push forward, never stop
Always.

2026-02-14 11:57:54 UTC

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I agree. Denying sex and pleasure has been a technique for governing the masses since time immemorial; on one hand, people are divided by gender, while on the other, sexual frustration is used to enforce obedience, and pleasure is sold (eg, brothels for troops at the front) to guarantee it...
But this is difficult to explain to those who live with a submissive mindset...

2026-02-14 11:55:36 UTC

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HA is very nice, but also written in a really hard to manage way, recent push toward deprecating pip install are even worse, it's start to get hard deploy HA o a personal home server without wasting resources and enlarging our attack surface with containers... I hope a day enough people will understand why declarative distros matter and why containers are crap needed just to push a commercial model harmful for the society...

2026-02-14 11:52:53 UTC

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A certain degree of traceability is necessary to protect the population: the number of people kidnapped and tortured to force them to transfer BTC is significant, and there is no better protection than being able to find those who commit the crime and go after them.
There are many problems with this; one could imagine a future "rules-as-code" model, where elections are on-chain votes and a country's (world) general decisions are made via human on-chain voting, so that if a state becomes criminal, it faces major physical limits. However, there will always be a fault line that must be accepted in order to have a functioning civil society.
I could hide how much wealth I have, but I could also be caught and robbed, and the person doing it might or might not believe that what I've given them is actually all I have. Then we're back to the stereotypical Wild West where crime is used to justify power and repression, because on one hand you're creating criminals and on the other you're selling fake security. Playing with your cards relatively open ensures a sufficient trade-off so that you aren't at someone's mercy but can still have a civil society.
In reality, you can't expect a society of rational beings who act with a certain level of civility every day, especially when things go wrong.

2026-02-11 11:50:01 UTC

Casually discovered Bitcoin Hyper, being not much convinced I'm curios of your opinion... Another Liquid?

2026-02-11 11:45:25 UTC

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Personally I've experimented with Alby hub + Zeus mobile side, but... It's still something no average joe/merchant can possibly do.
If someone decides to produce home servers that maybe integrate a BitAxe/NerdMiner-style ASIC, a Bitcoin node, Lightning, a WebUI to manage them, and a robust enough update mechanism (e.g. a custom NixOS/Guix System) well, then maybe people will actually spend money to put a home server in their house and so becoming sovereign citizens. One that, besides payments, also handles things like contacts with Radicale, photos with Immich, videos with JellyFin, hosts Nostr with a Habla-style blog, and maybe adds Matrix with a web client for desktop use while they choose whatever they want for mobile. Something big enough to justify the purchase cost. Then maybe things will change, but as things stand now, objectively, we're not going to get very far. The "low entry barrier" thanks to use of third party service vanish the trust in the system, enabling too much scams.
Besides, we'll get even less far if we don't have hardware wallets that allow Lightning payments via NFC/QR to reassure most people that "you're not putting your money on a smartphone that isn't really yours, but on an open-hardware device limited enough to be immune to remote attacks".
To really win people over, you don't need to act like the giants who use bottom trawling; that only works if you're a giant and can afford massive marketing. When you're working on FLOSS projects, you first have to win over the power users, and they will be the one to effectively promote the project within their circles. To convince them, you need something with a different entry barrier specifically, that of distros and the ease of personal deployment without needing to know almost anything about the internals or the architecture of a project, just "I read about it, it piqued my interest, and I want to try it out".

2026-02-10 15:38:47 UTC

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Store of value in a multi-meaning word, in exchange terms against fiat currencies BTC it's not and never was a store of value since it's value against fiat keep changing (climbing up, in general, which multiply the fiat countervalue but still do not "store value"). In terms of security, availability it was most of the time and still is today a store of value: so far no one have successfully cracked Bitcoin, the hash power is still do high that a 51% attack it's unrealistic, the network availability is remarkable etc. In that sense my BTC as a currency are damn safe, so their value is well kept.
The point is the absence of daily use in nearly all the planet for daily expenses. These are the source of stability because a baker, a butcher sell at a reasonably stable price a day after another, people buy at reasonably stable rates and even if the exchanged amounts are little they are damn many. That's the substantial value of a currency: it's underlying economy. Lightning does not help much because it's conceptually hard to understand for common people "why I need to pay to open, then I can't receive payments if I not spend more than what I want to receive?". That's why it's technically ok (as long as the counterpart is online) but practically a failure. Without an easy day-to-day payment solution that really works BTC as a store of value do work only for giants.
They push people towards stablecoins while they use BTC between themselves to avoid scam or need of trust. Something very dangerous for those who are not banks or sovereign states.
This could change with hardware: cheap homeservers like a single box, with a GNU/Linux distro as a fw, with a built-in Blog Habla-style, a social WebUI like Lemmy/Reddit, a generic chat, ... Also running a Bitcoin node allowing to open a channel with itself. Than you can say Lightning is the wallet you carry with you, if full you need to empty it a bit because the amount of cash it contains it's constrained, while the homeserver is your own bank and also the rest of your digital home. A hw wallet to pay around for those who prefer money and surveillance devices also known as smartphones well separated complete the game. Without such action that could be financed by tech savvy whales knowing such move it's needed to keep BTC up, well I'm not much optimistic for the future. I can trade BTC, but if I can't really buy daily things because sellers do not accept them and so I have to relay on third parties Crypto cards... It's not much freedom...

2026-02-10 11:59:47 UTC

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Wow Thanks!
I wasn't knowing WoT, how come this kind of filtering isn't already in the documentation for Nostr or srtfry? Is it standard practice to leave relays open?
I just got here, so I haven't seen much yet and I'm curious!
Anyway thanks again :)

2026-02-10 10:32:40 UTC

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Age verification serves to get slaves, pardon 'citizens', used to having to log in for everything; in other words, to not being able to access anything freely, to owning nothing, and being completely dependent on third-party services.
The skyrocketing cost of PC components serves to stop home servers and FLOSS desktops which, given the degradation of commercial desktops, were starting to truly spread. This way, most people will find themselves, either due to hard cost or a mere desire to spend less on capex, living on someone else's servers using tablets, smartphones etc, whose cost for the OEM is much lower and whose short operational life guarantees a constant flow of money from the two-legged cattle to the OEMs.
The recent dip in BTC, on the other hand, serves to push the majority toward stablecoins, smart contracts that can be frozen by the issuer whenever they want, a primary issuer based in an exotic country that isn't even particularly vulnerable to legal action.
However, all of the above isn't really connected or understood individually by most people, so the trend continues. Even if we know, we are still dragged along by the masses because we live in a society and therefore must be able to buy with what the seller accepts, submitted to the laws that the majority accepts. This is the real point.
The EU talks a lot about sovereignty; we've had smart cards for identity and digital signatures for decades, but no, they use very "sovereign" Android/iOS apps, which are known to be EU-made software on EU-made hardware. And they sell the excuse "well, the app is FLOSS," as if the spying ecosystem it exists on doesn't count.
I've just written https://blog.kfx.fr/a-reason-for-bitcoins-dip already summarized here this morning!

2026-02-09 12:59:28 UTC

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0.something... I was a high school student, GNU/Linux relative newbie, I've mined a bit and then failing to find a usage I've simply forgot my seed...

2026-02-09 11:11:39 UTC

Does anyone know of a writePolicy plugin for strfry that can be used specifically for spam filtering? I'm new to Nostr and set up my own relay like a typical *nix nerd, but I can't find anything less restrictive than just whitelisting specific public keys. I'm looking for something to monitor spam and blacklist specific keys, or to integrate Bayesian antispam logic (like dbacl), or even a community-updated public antispam list (similar to uBlock Origin).
I found https://github.com/0xtrr/chief but it doesn't seem like much of a solution and looks abandoned... I'd love to offer some open storage to the community/network, but I don't want to end up as a spam relay...
Thanks!

2026-02-09 08:45:45 UTC

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vulgus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur was written between 1517 - 1561 and it's still perfectly valid today...

2026-02-09 08:44:38 UTC

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Probably yes, at least in broad terms: creating vocal group of evidently fool people is useful for getting two messages across:
- there is freedom of speech and expression: "look at the kind of people who are talking; if there were censorship, they wouldn't be allowed to!"
- associating any idea that differs from the mainstream with obviously crazy ideas to discredit them in the eyes of those who don't understand, who just get swept up in emotion and, out of flock mentality, fight against anything that is "different from the status quo"
I don't know if this one in particular was created or just exploited, but this kind of media baiting has existed since the dawn of time.

2026-02-08 13:14:50 UTC

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For a community to be born, you need a certain mass of people; until you reach a specific threshold, you can at most float in irrelevance, hoping to hit it at some point. Once you cross that threshold, you grow, and then you tend toward https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/10/14/the-evaporative-cooling-effect-in-social-network/ which is why certain elements are necessary.
In my opinion, Nostr has the following fundamental problems:
- Lack of a web app that is go-get-able, pip-able, or cargo-install-able without a ton of dependencies, something easy to package for every distro, including a manageable (non-JSON) and well documented text configuration with a WebUI for those who prefer a visual format over a replicable one, with a WebUI that includes a client as well.
- Lack of control over the Relay; specifically, hosting your own relay with a built-in client that sends every message there first and imports every message marked as interesting into it.
- Lack of a useful and usable UI, such as a blog in the style of Habla but a bit more flexible, with comments under every article, as part of the aforementioned official WebApp, a forum in the style of Lemmy/Reddit, essentially a 4-panel UI: "administration," "blog/site," "forum," and "chat".
- Lack of a manageable media server where you can choose which multimedia content to keep and with what policy, as part of the aforementioned app.
- Lack of a search BY TOPIC rather than just "by username".
Without the above, Nostr is technically beautiful and has a plethora of developers writing a lot of stuff in "Silicon Valley Mode" but without a sufficiently complete and coherent foundation, it won't go anywhere. It fails to capture the user base that could truly make it grow: the intermediate nerd/geek/techie who has a small home server or a VPS, but lacks the time and desire to study a vast amount of source code, some of it "vibe-coded", that seems semi-abandoned from the start.
This audience is essential for forming an initial core user base beyond just developers, and this core attracts the average user by being the "local expert" who tells friends, "come join me" whereas presenting a client directly to the end user fails because they simply will never see it.
It's no different from Bitcoin; there's so much fragmentation, but what's missing is a wallet that is LIGHTWEIGHT and CLEAN, a self-contained web app in Go/Python/Rust that doesn't weigh 1GB+ and maybe supports hardware wallets on the side, from Trezor to SeedSigner, without any frills and without being an unknowable, half-proprietary blob.
Economics comes AFTER the tech; it's the technology that draws people in and leads the nerd/geek to discover the economic model, which is the necessary foundation to eventually reach the end user.
The underlying problem is that modern dev don't know how to write free software even when they try; they've been trained in the commercial startup model, so that approach feels natural to them. Without a manager to handle the business side, they can't produce anything coherent, even if their work has technical merit. Re-learning original FLOSS model would be VERY helpful.

2026-02-08 10:59:06 UTC

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The main issue is that Lightning doesn't create a channel with yourself unless you run your own node at home, which would be financially affordable for most, at least in the West (a BitAxe/Nerdminer and a Raspi, for instance). However, it's not technically feasible because there aren't any complete mini-home-servers on the market, perhaps sold in a bundle with a hardware wallet like Trezor (and with a lightweight FLOSS suite instead of some half-proprietary monster). The second problem is that the wallet has a limited capacity, so anyone wanting to use it to receive payments needs to know that it first must be set up with a certain amount, and then emptied just enough.
It's a level of complexity that's out of reach for most people. In this sense, Solana does better by remaining monolayer, even if its economic model doesn't hold up particularly well.
People need solutions they can conceptually understand, it doesn't matter how much technical complexity lies beneath, that are "ready to deploy," like a little box to plug into the home router and a smartwatch or pendant to carry around to pay or get paid without anything else. This doesn't exist for now; those who develop these things lack an understanding of how things work for the average person.

2026-02-07 20:18:03 UTC

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Since we are in 2026 I refuse paper signature, only digital signing with a smart-card for me.

2026-02-07 19:32:57 UTC

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The issue with Reddit is that mods ban what they dislike, so it's impossible to have sane conversations in general, while on Usenet was very easy.
I hope a future Nostr-version of Lemmy will help to change such issue :)

2026-02-07 19:17:58 UTC

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Meanwhile Substack https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

2026-02-07 15:19:46 UTC

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Many people have switched to stablecoins, not knowing that they are smart-contracts freezable as the issuers wish... That's the substantial departure of the bear. I'll take time for them to learn.

2026-02-07 10:52:17 UTC

Bing censor Neocities personal websites/pages
Here the news: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/neocities-founder-stuck-in-chatbot-hell-after-bing-blocked-1-5m-sites/ per se it's nothing special, a search engine decide not to index/show a large batch of websites, but the meaning is much more relevant.
The further we progress, the more we see FLOSS projects emerging to provide freedom of expression, while the giants try to strip it away, no longer just by creating walled gardens for their services, but by actively hiding the rest of the world, the free world, from those inside.
Initially, censorship targeted email. Anyone running their own mail server on a domestic IP, something perfectly legal and once common among many techies, is blocked by the giants; my private emails simply don't reach those using GMail, YMail, and so on. If a GMail user writes to me, my replies are flagged as SPAM, even if they aren't spam at all. This hasn't been very visible because most people don't know anyone with a private email address or a even a personal domain name; emails also aren't that easy to host despite efforts to create “easy-deploy” solutions. From there, censorship has only escalated, while attempts are made to fix the absurdity of communication systems that only talk to themselves, whereas with email or Usenet everyone can talk to everyone else, platforms like WA or FB Messenger only talk to themselves. Trying to “fix” this means peering between them and only them, to continue OWNING their users, isolating them from the rest of the world and ensuring their enslavement through the herd effect; quite simply, many people I know have WA and nothing else, and since I don't have it, they pressure me to install it.
This news is just one of the latest events in a long chain of the erasure of personal ownership (you live on lease on someone else's platform), of free expression (the giants censor, you can only publish what they want, and it will appear in the search results of others exactly where they decide), and ultimately, of the free world.
This is why, even though the unity that once existed in the FLOSS world is missing today, and the bulk of developers no longer know how to design architectures, having been trained as high-ranking code monkeys rather than with a big-picture vision, it is more necessary than ever to own your own tools and push this model, rejecting slavery while there is still room to do so.

2026-02-07 09:57:53 UTC

My summary of the headlines for today https://blog.kfx.fr/today-news-selection-12h7

2026-02-06 20:42:37 UTC

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We need to been able to pay a coffee as well, a currency only for large operations it's something nice for banks, not for people...

2026-02-06 20:34:57 UTC

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To be honest, in my view:
- like it or not, Lightning is a failure. Not because it doesn't work, but because to be sovereign in your own home you have to host a BTC node. Nowadays, that means a BitAxe/NerdMiner + a home server or dedicated Raspi with a bit of storage (let's say 2TB to last a reasonable while) and some bandwidth too. The cost is within reach for many, but the complexity isn't. Some, like frigghome.ai, have thought of pre-packaged solutions, but as of today there isn't really a "buy this device at a low enough price and become a BTC node with only basic knowledge" option. The result is that most people open channels with anyone and often get scammed or, at the very least, aren't truly free depending on a specific third party.
- The economic model is fine in theory, but we need a complete reference stack. We need ONE single and unique WebApp that is easy to install via 'go install' or 'pip install' etc, without dependencies that it doesn't pull in itself and not much of them anyway, easy to package for various distros, very self-contained (proxable via NGINX/* but also usable directly without nothing else than './such_app serve'. It should offer a complete and well-documented textual config, with an admin WebUI for those who don't manage via text. We need an Habla that is a serious, modern blog capable of scaling for years of posts, not an infinite scroll of tiles. We need a Reddit/Lemmy-style WebUI for those who want to comment, a Twitter-style one (which is in almost every Nostr client today) for those who want that, and a chat for those who want that. Nothing more confusing, nothing else if not via plugins.
Technically speaking, almost everything exists, but unfortunately it's in scattered pieces that seem written in a rush, without a very clear vision, in Silicon Valley mode, then abandoned, undocumented, all needing to be pieced together and with very varied NIP support.
I'm an "old school" sysadmin, not that old, but born in a *nix environment, and well, I should be the typical early adopter. I set up my own relay, already cursing at the less-than-stellar documentation. I looked for a client and already ran into problems compiling Gossip, which has a gazillion dependencies. I haven't set up my own Blossom or Habla yet, and I don't even know if I will because I like the idea of Nostr and I like some of the comments I read here and there, but searching is a mess; it's more about people than topics, and anyone who arrives does so for topics, and that's how we discover people... A user who knows nothing finds clients with obvious limitations and questionable, confusing UIs that seem to be trying to replicate the dopamine design of commercial social media...
It's not great for attracting people especially those who don't understand the value of the underlying protocol because, let's face it, there are many hours of FLOSS work worthy of all due respect, but once you take away the protocol, the rest of the code is a mass of inconsistent and confused sketches and experiments.
It surprises me that it's holding up and I'm only exploring it for Nostr itself, but... I don't know how the average user could possibly be interested.

2026-02-06 19:57:45 UTC

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In reality, we can imagine that as a conversation between a PARC researcher and a manager of that era:
- R: We’ve created a revolution; with our workstations and the network, offices are no longer needed, we can work across the world from our own homes!
- M: [thinks] these guys have just reinvented the phone and the fax with a different flavour [says] right, wow, let me have a look...
- R: We have emails, we can exchange text, documents with graphic elements, and soon we’ll integrate the Mother of all Demos and have video and audio too!
- M: Oh, wow, and how much does it cost? How long will it take to build?
- R: Well, an Alto costs as much as a city-centre office in a major city; as for the internet, let’s say a couple of years' worth of GDP from a few superpowers and about 20 years.
- M: NURSES!!!!!!
Then we see how much it actually cost, how long it took, and where we are today for having chosen to spend far more by not following what PARC had achieved back then. On this point, I suggest: https://youtu.be/M0zgj2p7Ww4 and http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Kay1977.pdf
The problem for BTC today is the underlying economy: its enormous value, whether one likes it or not, stems from those who have used it in the real economy until now, the "D-Company" that sold drugs for BTC, then swapped BTC for weapons/explosives; those selling the weapons accepted them because they could exchange BTC for clean fiat currencies from various countries, selling back to the drug buyers. China with Fentanyl in Mexico, Venezuela with oil, North Korea with various weapons, Iran likewise, this was a real economy using BTC as a currency, not for financial speculation. They understood. Our local common folk still don't.
So today, as those activities have quietened down and are partly shifting to stablecoins, not realising this time that these can be seized whenever the issuer wants, interest in BTC is dropping and the miners' economy is sinking. This is a significant problem: Wall Street, like the banks, doesn't want a currency that isn't under their control, and they are doing everything possible to halt its rise, with a certain amount of success so far.

2026-02-06 09:29:07 UTC

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What do you use to have Nostr in Emacs?

2026-02-05 21:43:23 UTC

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I don't have any point of comparison because I've only just arrived, mostly fed up with Reddit's censorship, hunting for something I can host myself without too many problems or convoluted setups (thanks to NixOS)...
My first impression is that there are plenty of interesting people, but the ecosystem is still very fragmented and in an early stage lacking a big-picture vision... There isn't, or at least I haven't found yet, an effective way to search by topic rather than by user. Habla is nice but the UI is stiff and limited for blog use, and I haven't found a Reddit-like alternative on Nostr similar to Lemmy yet. I also haven't come across a media server for self-hosting shared media, and the documentation seems rather sparse...
What I'm finding seems to aim at impressing with the UI, which is useful for commercial products targeting end-users, but terrible in the FLOSS world. In my opinion, the lack of a vision and a coherent core, a single web app that's easy to self-host, and reasonably feature complete, means it's missing the potential user base that could actually make it grow...
But we'll see... That's just a first impression...

2026-02-05 13:58:23 UTC

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Hotel owners, to cut costs. The more you push for open-spaces, the less the you spend...

2026-02-05 13:46:07 UTC

My news selection for today, open for comment: https://blog.kfx.fr/today-news-selection-gs7x
It's an experiment for those who want to try.

2026-02-05 12:45:42 UTC

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Vulgus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. It was written a long time ago and remains true; after all, people living in fear is people that can be led much more easily and freely by whoever happens to be in power...

2026-02-05 12:43:45 UTC

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Sudan is among the countries in the Clean Break plan: https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/255104/clean-break-seven-wars-chaotic-middle-east try to trace the wars of the last few decades and you will find them all, only to discover that Clean Break is in turn the evolution of the older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan

2026-02-05 12:32:07 UTC

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Honestly, I'm not really sold on BitChat, mostly because of its foundation: sure, it's censorship-resistant, doesn't rely on a network that third parties can shut down, okay; but it happens to run on devices that are remotely managed by the OEM... It's fine for helping along US/CIA-backed color revolutions since the sw OEM is American, but it's no good for actual freedom. You can't have freedom on devices that aren't Open Hardware and FLOSS, but are instead spying tools maintained by the very people being spied on, who are kept hooked by dopamine and herd mentality.
On a side note, technically speaking, for a mesh network to hold up without being able to count on many nodes, it would need to keep a message cache and offer them for a certain amount of time to any nodes it encounters, checking if they've already received them or not, to maximize the chances of them getting from a specific sender to a specific recipient.

2026-02-05 12:25:01 UTC

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The bulk of the population is not an individual in society but a flock animal; in other words, it is not reason but emotion. Therefore, it joins the largest flock or the one that gives it something it needs at the moment, paying back by conforming as much as possible.
It is a theme that has been historically well-dissected in philosophy, primarily by Schopenhauer.