Laeserin
Laeserin (Silberengel)

I was just thinking that having another Nostr dev testing your entire software in a reproducible and extendable way and giving you productive feedback is more valuable than just haphazardly receiving bug reports from end users.
But I don't know if anyone would agree enough that they'd pay money for it, or if they just want to stick with user-submitted issues. We can see that there isn't actually any direct financial incentive for Nostr devs, to ensure that their software works reliably well. It's a cost that they can't easily pass on, and more something that they would have to desire for its own sake.
For the record, I haven't yet formally tested any Nostr products. #Alexandria will be the first.

2024-09-10 21:02:47

I have too many npubs. I might retire this one.

2024-09-10 20:18:05

Good grief. Never seen such a low signal-to-noise ratio on here, in a thread, before.
https://nostr.band/note184ur8sh0t8gn9keezrv6rx8usufr7dgpndj0e4gj6ea9jtttn0qsymq355

2024-09-10 12:21:18

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The idea is that I could have maybe an abstract npub for posting to primal, and a more personalized one for posting to a fren community, and a "professional" one for responding in the community for your software project. You would determine which one showed up where, by selecting a NIP-05. Or someone else could ask to see your personal one, everywhere, as they like seeing your real name and a photo PfP, rather than a picture of a fire hydrant and npubbunchofnumbers.
What do you think @npub149p…722q, or should we just have a bunch of different npubs? The latter is a way to silo off your personas, whereas going by NIP-05 is just about showing relevant profile data, and it leaves moderators or other npubs free to change what they see, by selecting a different one or overwriting with their own edition for your npub (because they want to keep it static or you're breaking some moderation rule by being too sexy or whatnot).
I mean, we already effectively have this, as all of the clients/relays/caches display different versions of each profile. This would just be more deliberate and systematic.

2024-09-10 12:02:24

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I use only smaller relays and look at global or at my favorites list, so I don't really need follows. That said, I'm using it as a moderation list for my relay, so that makes it useful to me, but I could use any list for that.
Thought about nuking my follow list, but then people lose my WoT data. People keep saying follower count doesn't matter, but getting a follow from me gets other npubs immediate visibility. I know what it's like to scrounge around for interaction for weeks or months, or get muted by The Wrong Person and fall into obscurity.
Being a newbie on here sucks. Hoping communities fixes that. Then your community membership could raise your WoT, by proving that some people there were willing to let you stick around.

2024-09-10 11:39:51

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Not Kind 0. That's only one event.
The NIP allows you to define a relationship status between npubs, which can include what to display in someone's profile, if they are moving within your community, like a pet name.
My question is: could the NIP-05 and a different profile pic or weblink, etc. also be included within that profile-overwrite? It can, right? So, you could issue npubs a NIP-05 for your community and allow them to create a custom profile add-on that tailored their npub to the community.
Seems like the obvious next step and cleaner than someone needing a different npub for each community.

2024-09-10 11:09:07

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We both tend to work for lots of different projects, doing specialized tasks. There are a couple of people on here, like that. It doesn't really make sense for us to do it only for one project, as the quality of our work depends upon transfer of knowledge.
Some of us are also developers, but our primary contribution isn't product coding.
I will happily keep posting issues for clients I actively use or that our project has a stake in, but it's nothing as advanced or useful as what they'd get for paying me, and I only do it when I'm in the mood. And it would probably mostly stop, once I get a day job.

2024-09-10 10:38:25

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But wiki pages are still in markdown.

2024-09-10 10:38:04

TIL that #Nostrudel now displays long-form.

2024-09-10 09:16:14

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From a single caching service.

2024-09-10 08:47:29

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That's because pet names is only one possible entry, and it's an npub-to-npub connection description.
But name isn't very clear, I agree.

2024-09-10 08:37:22

https://i.nostr.build/bMGASR78Hxm6lQrZ.png
Is this a thing?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/761#issuecomment-2340019397

2024-09-10 08:34:56

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That's NIP-81, but most of the clients haven't implemented it.

2024-09-10 08:23:44

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There's no such thing as a profile pic update. There's just a kind 0 event, so if you block updates, you block any change to the profile.
You would have to locally cache the pic and then never clear the cache (which is a bug, not a feature, sorry), list the NIP-05 next to the handle in the notes (easiest fix), or use NIP-81 (which is work to implement, but has the most long-term potential).

2024-09-10 08:06:45

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That's fine. Why you had to turn this thread into another sitting of the Laeserin Haters Club, is beyond me.
But you do you.

2024-09-10 08:03:08

There is a growing group of npubs that sit around and complain about me. That means I've made it into the #Nostrelites, right? Cuz entire convos are about me in the third person, like I'm Taylor Swift, or something.
https://media.tenor.com/_euTr6sqiMYAAAAC/tfw-they-cant-forget-about-you.gif

2024-09-10 07:38:54

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You have to buy nostr.wine to get the better relays, like the filter or creator or etc., so it's a sort of freemium model and a lot of people are on it.
Probably would be enough to keep the ReplyGuy sort of stuff out, but it's got a lot of noise, so global is kinda useless.

2024-09-10 07:19:29

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On Nostrudel, I can only toggle write-access, not read-access, which is frustrating. Guess I'll go back to only my mailboxes.

2024-09-10 07:02:58

@npub10np…tl5h do you have a solution to the ReplyGirl, ReplyGuy, and the "subtle reply anon" bots that are flooding the feeds?

2024-09-10 06:59:39

#Nostr is where you can have any profile you want, so long as it never changes.

2024-09-10 06:55:46

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The consequences are objectively smaller.

2024-09-10 06:24:43

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Few.

2024-09-10 06:13:41

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Done.

2024-09-10 06:05:38

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Of course.

2024-09-10 05:50:08

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Should I adopt his profile pic and handle? 🤔

2024-09-10 05:48:56

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Most people like the profile pic changing. It's the only personal touch our profiles really have.

2024-09-10 05:46:51

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Regular occurrence, yes.

2024-09-10 05:40:23

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But no. We don't do that here. We are all anon here or we want to be frozen in time at 22.
For every person who is horrified at seeing my new PfP, there are at least 10 who can't see the new PfP and ask me how to fix that, because the clients cache everything and the relays refuse to update profiles, even if I broadcast it. People are still zapping me on Alby because they can't see that I changed to Minibits, so I had to link the wallets.
Every client currently displays a different version of my profile. Some from over a year ago.
And I'm the only person who can prove that because most other people are literally terrified of changing anything ever. Which is just going to get worse, if every typo correction or new banner image results in thousands of people receiving a message in their client. Everyone now knows that they can't change anything because it creates a flood of spam, and there's no point in changing anything, as so many people refuse to accept it or don't even see the changes.
Profile stasis.
Also doesn't make sense to bother with cryptographic keys and NIP-05s, if users insist on identifying people they know by picture. Anyone can just copy my picture link and put it in their profile. Same with my handle. It is not a unique identifier, it's just a convenience or decoration.

2024-09-10 05:23:23

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It's not only risky, it's nearly impossible.
Most clients don't pin notes effectively, or at all, and the timelines are a linear shit-show, so the PfP is the only place you can put a new picture, where most of your followers will see it. I used to just pin them to the top of my feed, on Twitter, and had a painting as an avatar. Everyone arriving new or just curious could see the new picture and the avatar hardly ever changed.

2024-09-10 05:05:04

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Well, I just unfollowed him, so I hope he's happy with the result.

2024-09-10 04:25:04

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I've legit never had a man tell me that it upsets him to see my face. 😂
New experiences every day, on here.

2024-09-10 04:17:10

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Apparently, I become unrecognizable when photographed from a different angle.
My face is a great mystery on here. 🙄

2024-09-10 04:09:07

Okay, I've now responded to the many complaints about seeing changing pictures of me in the profile pic.
Going anon, again.

2024-09-10 03:51:07

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Everyone trying to get our relays to work
https://media.tenor.com/7RmJNEatb0wAAAAC/blairwaldorf-rude.gif

2024-09-09 20:16:15

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Profile update. 😀
https://i.nostr.build/4qUOLITSlZog0Oeq.png

2024-09-09 19:43:15

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The Interior Minister is extending border controls another 6 months, also in anticipation for other countries sending us all of their migrants. The neighboring countries are already saying that they won't take people Germany sends back.

2024-09-09 19:29:13

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I just interviewed for a position doing SAP migrations. 😅

2024-09-09 19:16:41

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💯 💯 💯 💯

2024-09-09 19:12:48

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Yeah, the prices I named were for something larger or more complicated, like Highlighter.
For someone with a smaller project, I'd probably also do more design/workflow work and help them market. I have a powerful npub.

2024-09-09 19:10:40

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It wouldn't even only be me. My husband is a software engineer specialized in QA and doing code reviews, and DevOps stuff, and I bet I could get the GitCitadel team to help me out, if the workload rose.
We're also good at Project Management and etc.

2024-09-09 19:05:21

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Testing has fixed costs, is the thing, as I have to "read" into their system and understand their application and business logic, in order to test. Which I'm really good at, but still. It's not much different from coding bounties, in that way, but each testing round would be more efficient, so I'd expect less pay for them.

2024-09-09 19:02:56

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I'm just finding the other sw projects "out there" so soul-crushing. It's like, I'm trying to end your business model in my side-gig. This is gonna get complicated. 🙄

2024-09-09 18:56:44

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Hmm... good question. 🤔 If I were paid in sats, I'd probably expect less than from a fiat company, for starters.
I tend to be really fast, which is probably bad for any model that involves paying by hour. I guess, maybe, depends on the size and complexity of the project, with a lump sum per project, maybe 200k sats for a detailed manual test report with improvement suggestions, with 100k for a follow-up test. More for automation.

2024-09-09 18:50:54

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I see these jobs and apply and they call me up and it's like... ugh. I'd rather be testing Nostr stuff.

2024-09-09 18:49:38

Question:
Do you think there's interest in software QA consulting on here? 🤔 Like, a testing bounty or something?
#asknostr

2024-09-09 18:02:31

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Might make sense to make it separate, in any case, as we might use it for a different application, later.

2024-09-09 14:03:24

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I don't know if anyone is concerned with destroying fertility, anymore. That's become extremely commonplace in the wider population. Not something specific to trans.
Fertility is increasingly seen as something without value, unfortunately.

2024-09-09 10:28:34

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I just told my husband to stop putting up with people's crap at work. He was like, but what if they fire me?
Meh, fuck em.

2024-09-09 10:22:09

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And I have a logistics certification and spent a year in the bookkeeping department. Pantry shelves are all perfectly stocked, bills all expertly paid. 😂

2024-09-09 10:20:01

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I actually spent a few years working in bakeries and delikatessen kitchens, which is why I can cook and am chill about cleaning.

2024-09-09 10:17:54

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Housekeeping can actually be a marketable skill, depending upon how and where she learned it. Like, Germany has apprenticeships as hotel specialist, or cook or seamstress. Or as a professional housekeeper, for instance, in an old age home or a large farm.

2024-09-09 10:14:17

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A man taking hormones and getting breast implants will soon seem quaint, to us.
Does the idea even shock anyone, anymore?
When I was growing up, breast implants in women was shocking. Humans acclimate to environmental changes really fast.

2024-09-09 10:12:10

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They took the fad to the absolute extreme, with increasingly irreversable changes, and it's become another branch of transhumanism.
The whole idea that humans can rise above biology. Changing (or exagerrating) the sex is just the warm-up. We'll see people with tails, people who have their limbs replaced with robotic superlimbs, cochlear implants in healthy people, manipulation in vitro, etc.

2024-09-09 09:48:52

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You smart. Covered all the bases, with that one.
https://media.tenor.com/8PuSVAUnAaUAAAAC/joey-friends.gif

2024-09-09 09:47:34

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Everytime the economy is booming, guys start openly fantasizing about the Angel in the Household, and then the downturn comes and they're like
https://media.tenor.com/fvFuRt4wxLAAAAAC/oh-never-mind-randy-marsh.gif

2024-09-09 09:44:48

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😂 So, just a wife who isn't completely useless and sleeping with the gardener?

2024-09-09 09:20:54

Another thing y'all think you want, is having a wife with no marketable skills, who just expected you to be the exclusive breadwinner your whole marriage.
That actually sucked for men. It did.

2024-09-09 09:10:26

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Just saying,
https://media.tenor.com/rc79T9yIRnMAAAAC/dont-wish-for-what-you-dont-want-governer-lynelle-perry.gif

2024-09-09 09:05:57

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The fact that women could do a lot of things doesn't mean that they all did them equally well. And how hard was it, to serve corn pone, pickled beans, and pottage every damn day? People around here used to eat 15 variations of dumpling and bread, bread, bread...
Nowadays, y'all expect us to cook steak dinners and serve organic vegetable julienne, like you're living in a permanent episode of Downton Abbey. 😅
Would you really want to wear homespun and wear clothes full of patches? Nowadays, you can just go buy new clothes and the seams are straight, and you can just throw them in the washing machine, when they are dirty.
Y'all romanticize everyone's crappy life.
Would my husband trade me in for some illiterate, toothless woman, who smelled bad and served him boiled potatoes and sauerkraut for dinner, and died giving birth to his 12th kid?
Nope.

2024-09-09 08:42:22

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I've also noticed that men tend to heavily discount womens' age in old pictures. They see pictures of 16 year-old factory girls from 1910 and get all excited because they think she's 25.
https://i.nostr.build/jz76LAGdpIO3UPN5.jpg

2024-09-09 08:36:57

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I think modern men have an ahistorical view of female beauty, so the concept of universal marriage sounds more appealing than it was. We can't go back to that era, and I doubt anyone born today would actually be willing to do so, if they saw what life back then was actually like.

2024-09-09 08:00:33

I doubt modern men would be willing to marry many of the women their grandfathers and great-grandfathers were marrying, and they would be dismayed at how quickly women aged.
There is a German phrase "Every child costs one tooth" and women where having 6 kids. You do the math.
If everyone gets a wife, that means you have hardly any choice in which wife you get. Think about it.
https://www.lwl.org/marsLWL/scr/1649236323000/6569v1tv3/01-283-MZA-222a-Haubergswirtschaft-des-Siegerlandes.jpg

2024-09-09 07:26:31

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My daughter (the one in the green dirndl) has an "overweight" BMI, but she wears a size small. I'm considered "extremely obese". Could never get below "obese", even when I was long-distance running in the mountains and wore a size 8.
I now go by waist-to-height ratio and jean size. Have a pair of old jeans I want to squeeze into. I don't weigh myself, anymore, as it drove me nuts.

2024-09-09 07:06:39

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Yeah, she's gorgeous.

2024-09-09 07:05:40

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Flapper versus Angel
https://i.nostr.build/cwpOz9S7Ntkw1Cvm.png
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2c/a8/3a/2ca83aa4596ba4ddda6043ac675721c3.jpg

2024-09-09 06:56:20

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Breast augmentation is actually declining. Breast reduction surgery is increasing.
And womens' breast fat tissue is increasing in volume, regardless of the plastic surgery trends. Men increasingly seem to like full breasts and behinds and actively select for it.

2024-09-09 06:52:41

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They had breasts, but they were often comparitively small. Women have been getting steadily taller, stronger, and bustier, since the 1970s.
They faked it, with corsets, as cinching the waist tighter makes the breasts more prominent. In the 1920s, they actually bound their breasts and starved themselves down, as flapper style was inherently androgynous (androgyny was all the rage, see Weimer). A lot of Nazi propaganda pointed this out, and androgyny went out of fashion for a few decades, with women like Marilyn Munro and Sophia Loren rising to prominence, but it came roaring back in the late 1960s, as women become feminists and careerists.
For a long time, the ideal bust was an A or a B Cup and many women actually bought those sizes, even though they didn't fit. It is only recently, that bra manufacturers actually produce other sizes, but even bust circumference measurents indicate busts getting steadily larger.
Turn around after 2000, with more shapely females coming back into style, as other "curvier" ethnicities become more "visible" in the media, like Hispanics, African Americans, and Slavs.
Modern supermodels, like Miranda Kerr, tend to have curvy chests. That is thanks, in part, to Victoria Secret wanting to sell bras. Flat-chested women don't need bras.

2024-09-09 06:18:40

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Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I mentioned Bowie above.

2024-09-09 06:07:40

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I am unapologetically eurocentered and straight as a rod.

2024-09-09 05:54:33

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I think, what's mostly changed is that it's become an ingrained part of the culture and people have vocabulary for self-identifying, now.

2024-09-09 05:53:29

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People didn't call it "queer" or "trans" back then. They'd just talk about how they wouldn't let themselves be caged in by sexual dichotomy.
Remember the shoulder pads? 😅
Even our communion dresses had shoulder pads!

2024-09-09 05:49:17

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LOL I must be old enough to be your mom, then, because I remember the 80s.

2024-09-09 05:47:11

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I think younger people would be totally weirded out, by how similar everyone was, within one area. People move around, now. It used to be that you married someone from your neighborhood and they were more-or-less related.
That just sounds bizarre, now. 😂
Not everything has changed for the worse, is all.

2024-09-09 05:13:45

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https://i.nostr.build/IrqW690k6msh5108.jpg
https://media.vogue.de/photos/5c8262ddabee6682d3a23326/1:1/w_2256,h_2256,c_limit/GettyImages-3297078.jpg
https://i.redd.it/s4topxdqwirb1.gif
https://montecristomagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/5-3-Montecristo-Magazine-Autumn-2012-ARTIFACTS_30-33_PAGE_3_IMAGE_0001.jpg
https://image.stern.de/6641748/t/IU/v6/w1440/r0/-/bowie-stardust-1974.jpg

2024-09-09 04:56:29

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The difference is that everyone fashionable used to be a tranny, but now it's a niche thing and they do more surgeries and pills.

2024-09-09 04:36:46

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People were generally smaller and weaker. Regularly starved, during childhood. My dad grew up on Wonderbread, Jiffy corn bread, and collard greens. Occasionally, peanut butter or black-eyed peas. Hardly any meat. He joined the Army at 17 because they fed you three full meals, every day, and you got to have your own bed.
And women didn't breastfeed their kids and fed them store-bought babyfood, back then, so our generation and the one before had mishapen jawlines and terrible skin. A lot of women had hairy faces because the bad diet threw their hormones off. And people still married their cousins.
It's actually amazing, when I look around at my generations' children, how they're usually better-looking than their parents. Breastfeeding, babywearing, feeding toddlers real food, well-baby checkups and midwives, no alcohol during pregnancy, etc. Huge difference.
My Mom wore sandals made of old tires and hand-me-downs that barely fit. Her feet grew once, in winter, so her dad cut off the front of the toe section.
The old photographs trick people because the resolution was so low. Made everyone look like a movie star. 😂
There's hardly anyone that poor or neglected, anymore.

2024-09-09 04:22:46

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We're going to have a GUI editor in Alexandria, that also publishes one event, but I wanted a CLI because then I can do batch processing and import entire libraries.

2024-09-09 04:21:11

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Yes, I have one. Answered above.

2024-09-09 04:20:43

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I have the modular article writer, that's a CLI. I'm tweaking it to also publish 30041 alone, wiki pages, and long-form.
Is that the one you meant?
Will take a couple of hours, go finish.
https://gitworkshop.dev/r/naddr1qqxx2sn0da442arfd35hg7gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyr7jprhgeregx7q2j4fgjmjgy0xfm34l63pqvwyf2acsd9q0mynuzqcyqqq80xgxyhfuj

2024-09-09 04:15:29

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https://wikistr.com/obsidian-nostr-writer

2024-09-08 19:43:23

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And no arse! 😂 Geeze. 7 foot tall, 6 inches wide, legs like twigs, tranny makeup, bizarre aggressive hairdos, shoulder pads, and flat as a board.
80s perfect female was a dude.

2024-09-08 19:35:33

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They were the people that grew up after or even during the war, you know, and sometimes the Great Depression before that.
And children were sick more often. Not with allergies, but like... with polio and other scary shit.
And they drank so much, it was sort of crazy. Alcoholism was normalized.

2024-09-08 19:29:07

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Maybe we passed each other on the pedestrian zone.

2024-09-08 19:25:22

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You have to remember that the historical pics and videos people show on the Internet (look, everyone looked like a movie star!) is often showing views of people in the upper class. I was in the working class, so I was seeing normal people.
People were thinner, but that often actually made their faces and figures less appealing. A minimum of fat hides asymmetry, reduces facial aging, and makes womens' figures curvier. Women had no boobs.

2024-09-08 19:11:03

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The Americans were famous for their good teeth, height, and muscles, but young Germans have never heard of this.

2024-09-08 19:09:46

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My generation was good-looking. 2000+ was already looking up.
Maybe because the Wall came down and Europeans move around more and the Americans were here.

2024-09-08 19:06:40

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The androgyny was off the charts. I'd forgotten about that, but watching some flashback documentaries and everyone looked androgynous. Both from their physiognomy, makeup, and from the fashion.
I guess they died out.

2024-09-08 18:55:22

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No, I mean, the chemical plants used to dump chemicals into the rivers and Tschernobyl and stuff.

2024-09-08 18:52:31

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Chemicals were worse, before. I remember.

2024-09-08 18:51:36

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And their teeth and skin are better.
And the women are cuter and the men have more sympathetic faces. Neoteny is winning.

2024-09-08 18:43:13

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I used to have one on a leather chain.