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2023-09-02 15:14:30 UTC

Whatever it is, you probably did it to yourself

2023-09-01 16:54:20 UTC

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As far as I can tell, there's a sense of exclusivity that comes with being in a particular moment at a particular time.
The live stream makes the entertainment scarce, like going to a concert, instead of listening at home. That's the best analogy I can come up with.
There's only ever the one live experience, but a rewatch is just one of thousands, millions of times.
Those can be special, if it's a meaningful piece of media, but the scarcity adds some sort of extra value. If it's something special or meaningful to begin with, then that's pretty kino to get to see live.
Same reason I go see every rocket launch that I can in person. It's just to be there, and see.

2023-09-01 00:15:27 UTC

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Though jim streams I do watch vods of, they aren't the kind of slop I can only watch live

2023-09-01 00:13:55 UTC

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the live gimmick works to get me to watch shit I otherwise wouldn't. I have found that the novelty of "being live" allows me to tolerate things I wouldn't normally

2023-08-31 23:34:38 UTC

Beep.

2023-08-31 23:25:01 UTC

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YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO LIKE THAT THING YOU SAID YOU LIKE BECAUSE
[ESOTERIC FUCKING AUTISTIC SPERGING]

2023-08-31 23:08:25 UTC

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Corn subsidies need to go, too imo (less relevant to vegans).
Corn subsidies are the root of all American evil.

2023-08-31 23:06:31 UTC

I cannot state in strong enough terms how much I loathe the panel format of streaming/video.

2023-08-31 23:04:17 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9CiMO66xk
restriction, limitation, necessity are the mother of all invention (nee creativity)
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2023-08-31 22:54:47 UTC

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bad test no cookie

2023-06-08 23:33:39 UTC

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#[1]

2023-06-08 23:32:35 UTC

CRLF backend is down and out due to a weather induced shutdown. Be back soon!

2023-04-06 23:45:28 UTC

Up next, the todo-list of self-loathing

2023-04-06 23:24:41 UTC

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I've been saying this for some time: I appreciate how gossip makes it easy to use nostr responsibly, and in moderation.

2023-03-30 23:06:48 UTC

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Waiting on some salmon jerky to dry. It's nearly done, and the aroma is killing me. I can't wait.

2023-03-29 21:06:11 UTC

All in all, you're just a steak on the grill

2023-03-29 18:28:11 UTC

Doing the numbers on my monthly grocery expenditures, and uh, yikes.
Some highlights:
Milk: $14.36 (1.5 gal)
Eggs: $13.97 (4.5 doz)
I buy store brand for both. Guess I need to shop the sales harder.

2023-03-29 18:18:30 UTC

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Few people are willing to restrain themselves on principle when they want to do something.
I'm good with obliterating both, as needed. Chicken is tasty, and sometimes people are evil.

2023-03-29 15:20:56 UTC

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rip in peace, that will make two dead relays from my list
o7

2023-03-29 15:18:03 UTC

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If a kid is being 'trans'-ed it is because every single adult in that child's life has abdicated their responsibility to that child. At every level of responsibility - from community to parent - nothing but cowardice and negligence.

2023-03-29 15:12:07 UTC

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PageRank (the google secret sauce from back in the day) using mentions instead of hyperlinks would probably be decently effective. Hashtag spam might become problematic (since you could think of them as keywords, a la the meta field in html), since they cannot be applied invisibly.

2023-03-29 15:08:19 UTC

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Running nightly from source, too hardcore for me.
I am looking forward to the next gossip release, though.
Honestly I just cbfed to get the rust toolchain setup. I'll delay that forever, if possible.

2023-03-29 02:51:31 UTC

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#[1]

2023-03-29 02:49:52 UTC

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I'm an idiot full time ® - retard certified

2023-03-28 03:39:41 UTC

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I'm doing signals to producers/consumers that share each ws client. Producers listen for the event arrived signal, consumers verify and save the event, then send the signal.
Just werks because my web framework happens to have signals builtin

2023-03-26 03:56:39 UTC

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I wouldn't say "for" so much as "best suited for"
I think it is a mistake for anyone to use it to build a brand, chiefly. The alternative is something more like email, something mostly for interpersonal communications, less for mass broadcast Tthough mailing lists do exist, and newsletters, I posit they are grafted on, a special use case, not the main one. I think nostr is a really resilient way to do one to a few rather than one to many or one to all style communications.
I'd like to see a nostr future where each relay was more or less independent of the others, or maybe a neighborhood of associated relays, rather than these big, disordered, firhose collections of "PV :shakabra:" positivity posting etc etc

2023-03-26 00:57:27 UTC

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5x5, wondered about that first one. I saw nostril mentioned in with nostcat iirc.

2023-03-25 22:01:09 UTC

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Not that I'm saying you're using it wrong, but I think you might be using it wrong.
Global is fucked forever, and will eventually morph into an algorithmically curated wasteland because the current hellscape was unmanageable, as all social media global/semiglobal feeds seem to.
I think nostr is best suited for you to talk to people you already know, not to build a following out of people who discover you, or vice versa on global.
Build a "good" follower/ing list, which is subject to an unfortunate chicken and egg hump of bootsrapping a followed/follower list.
<tangent consume="false">
High quality posts are low frequency, you aren't likely to stumble across them on global anyway, as they are badly hurt by poor signal to noise ratios (in which I count antagonistic bitcoin posting, PV posting, jerking off about how nostr is surely going to change the world guys). I trimmed all that out of my feed and even when including replies, I see a few posts per hour max. I think the gossip UX is tailored to this relaxed form of browsing and posting, where there is a clear "I've caught up on and replied to everything in my feed" point. Huge props to its author for this decision, it encourages what I think is a more grounded, less terminally online method of online interaction. It turns nostr into a resilient usenet-style medium (though I am one to talk about usenet, having not been around for that).
</tangent>
All that said, I'd encourage you not to quit using nostr, just to alter your usage patterns and expectations. It shouldn't be used just like how you use twitter, something I think a lot of the slicker more mainstream clients and users are pushing it to be. It is different, and can be in reality different, but the onus is on you, the user, to allow that to happen through your different expectations and use.
<aside>
A common failing of "alt" tech is that it tries to be mainstream option, but run by our guys. They seem to just become less polished clones of the software and platforms they are aping, accomplishing something less than nothing, in my view.
</aside>

2023-03-25 20:03:01 UTC

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Like a bidirectional anus, shitting back and forth, forever

2023-03-25 18:11:22 UTC

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Thanks, I'll be sure to try these out. testing multiple commands has been a chore so far.

2023-03-25 13:53:36 UTC

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A basic nostr client focused on testing relay software against common/mandatory portions of the protocol. I'm tired of doing absolutely everything via websocat to debug, and possibly just too lazy to write unit tests yet

2023-03-25 00:38:12 UTC

What are the best practices for relay to relay broadcast of events? do you just code a nostr client process that forwards the message?
not talking in-band like in a cluster of backend nodes streaming messages back and forth, but I haven't found a nip that outlines this. I think it definitely does happen in the wild though.

2023-03-24 18:59:15 UTC

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Go to horny jail

2023-03-24 17:32:33 UTC

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Bad test, no cookie

2023-03-24 16:30:08 UTC

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Web integration is probably a bad idea (for the moment). Technologies that begin merely interfacing with the web, tend to be absorbed and superseded by some web-specific standard.
The web is, in this way, 'embrace extend extinguish:' the technology.
There is a lot of inertia, capital, and existing investment in the web. Until you are at least David, you probably shouldn't go and ask Goliath over for tea.
Best not to invite the web in until you are properly arrayed to defeat it forever.

2023-03-24 16:21:49 UTC

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2023-03-24 10:41:49 UTC

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Oh FUCK it was the fucking kombucha wtf why did I drink an entire piiiiiiiint

2023-03-24 09:39:56 UTC

Here I sit, broken hearted
Came to shit, only farted

2023-03-23 23:21:25 UTC

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this, but with less irony

2023-03-23 22:47:11 UTC

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It's what happens when everyone views the world as nothing more than a series of transactions. It's a denial of the existence of any metaphysical concepts. They can't understand anything non-(hyper-)rational and thus they pretend such things do not exist. It's reaaaaaally typical among leftish types. Enlightened redditors, so to speak

2023-03-23 22:44:05 UTC

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A real bottom take tbh

2023-03-23 22:37:15 UTC

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Literally the worst parts of my day are anytime I try and figure out where the FUCK something in pleroma source is actually defined.

2023-03-22 19:13:31 UTC

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also friendly reminder that the pubkey field on your relay's nip-11 is in the wrong format, it should be hex, not npub

2023-03-22 19:08:19 UTC

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Iris niggas always seem to be suffering at the whims of the dev. Or maybe the users are just whiny bitches.

2023-03-22 17:42:41 UTC

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Really it's a problem with the people who use it and their expectations. The pack of normies is full of faulty assumptions and bad demands based on them. And then, since there's so very many, it creates a false sense of what they should do. Developers listening to these people cater to the pack of locusts that will ultimately strip their fields bare and then move on to the next one.

2023-03-22 02:50:53 UTC

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Thyme respecters hard disagree

2023-03-21 22:45:29 UTC

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? weird

2023-03-21 22:44:18 UTC

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3:32
retrying with difficulty 30

2023-03-21 22:39:37 UTC

POW benchmark for CPU = 28

2023-03-21 18:50:17 UTC

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Sms costs money to send. Quite a bit, iirc. Why would they waste money on free users for insecure (because of sim cloning etc) auth methods? You should always use an OTP generator application on a device you control.

2023-03-21 04:53:26 UTC

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I can't see spam from global feeds, because my desktop client (gossip) does not implement one. It's followed/mentions/replies only, and I must not be an interesting poster to reply to with spam.
Sometimes on my mobile client (nostros) I check the global feed there to make sure my relays are connected up properly, but I mostly do not use global. It's a much much calmer experience this way. Nostr client/relay devs and operators chasing a usable global outside of local only blocklists may be a faustian bargain. If they achieve it, it'll damn the thing a la fediblock. And that's probably a big if to begin with.

2023-03-21 04:40:55 UTC

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ooooo I'm fedposting across the network bridges I'm fedpooooooooosting

2023-03-21 04:38:39 UTC

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Gossip is bretty gud BUT no global and no notifications, just an inbox of posts that mentioned or replied to you. Decent threading, it resolves threads with posts from elsewhere pretty well.
It do be written in rust, if you care about that at all (I care about never having to compile a rust anything but am happy to run the binaries, e.g.)

2023-03-21 04:24:57 UTC

I don't know who to tag, maybe Gleason.
NDNS - Nostr Domain Name System
A proposal for dns style lookups on nostr, using PoW and existing pubkey verification to establish and verify who owns what name, and where it points
https://github.com/pwm-codes/nips/blob/master/53.md
I feverishly put this together yesterday, a little today and am still trying to flesh out details, but am nearly tapped out for a couple days at least. I'm seeking any ideas as to make it actually work, there are some weak points especially re:propagation and what to do about possible cryptographically valid collisions from pubkeys that are fragmented away from each other. That might actually be a non-issue, but I need to convince myself of that first.
When it's done I'll add it to the relay software I'm working on.
#[0] and/or whoever else stumbles across this.

2023-03-21 02:22:06 UTC

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I am unsure if people can keep quick, punchy posts from falling into memetic shibboleths and banalities. No I will not elaborate, apparently that is bad for nostr.

2023-03-21 02:16:37 UTC

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I think there may need to be some standardization on POW delegation for this to work, as alluded to in the POW NIP for it to not lock mobile users out. Even likes get POW'ed, which I accidentally discovered while I had my POW set to 40. I had to kill the client process, it pegged my CPU

2023-03-21 02:06:48 UTC

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The only tranny free zone left, apparently

2023-03-21 02:06:07 UTC

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> one space before an inline comment
Found the python disrespecter

2023-03-20 14:59:49 UTC

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If I were to respond with the textual representation of a long, drawn out sniff, would the emphasis be placed on the 'i' or the 'f'?
SNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFF
or
SNIFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF?
Perhaps the dwell is on the 'n' as in
SNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNIFF?
Questions, questions.

2023-03-19 04:26:19 UTC

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I will say, for hardcore analytics queries you are going to push up against sqlite limitations quite quickly, as the amount of data you store increases. OLAP workloads (like I assume you plan on doing) don't do well on SQLite (I'm like SQLite's biggest fan). I ran a similar project for a while that did some analytics on a few hundred megs of data in a SQLite database but by the time you start doing big ol window queries etc it really breaks down. I'm talking second to second and a half best case stuff.
If your db grows to any size and/or you really start doing some gnarly queries then I am betting it will want a bigger dbms. You can always start with sqlite though and then port to postgres if your needs grow, sqlite tries to keep its syntax compatible where it can, especially with postgres.

2023-03-19 02:45:09 UTC

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cries in node_packages

2023-03-19 02:44:47 UTC

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#[0]

2023-03-19 02:43:41 UTC

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Kits, cats, bags, wives, how many were going to St. Ives?

2023-03-19 02:08:29 UTC

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I always use LTC for paying out bets when me and the boys play poker, low tx fees make it well-suited.

2023-03-19 02:06:29 UTC

Just about to start poking and prodding a tiny relay implementation.
Already wrote enough to do http uploads and provide NIP-05 identities.
Then it will be time to dogfood.

2023-03-18 21:57:01 UTC

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How normalized are you gonna make em? If you are okay to stick to something like postgres as your back end, then you are able to just shove the JSON directly into json or jsonb fields. Pleroma does this for AP events. Postgres has extensive support for manipulating and querying the JSON objects that you shove into it.
Just depends what you are going for, really

2023-03-18 21:48:06 UTC

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2023-03-17 16:34:06 UTC

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You can be friends with bot

2023-03-17 16:32:19 UTC

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

2023-03-17 16:23:12 UTC

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Nice bait

2023-03-17 15:56:38 UTC

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#[1]

2023-03-16 16:45:12 UTC

Go zap yourself in the dickhole, mother fucker ⚡⚡

2023-03-16 06:08:04 UTC

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> people who weren't going to use Rebased anyway
You can just say trannies Alex, they already hate you. Akkoma is just shitty Pleroma for people who no longer have cocks.

2023-03-16 06:04:56 UTC

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Luv me women, but every one of em that isn't one I would voluntarily associate with is probably a danger to themselves and others.
Wish it weren't so, for so many cases.

2023-03-16 06:00:38 UTC

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Women and democracy don't mix, therefore:
- One vote per household.
- Disenfranchise the rentoids, bring back land ownership requirements to vote.
(not entirely not serious)

2023-03-16 05:54:59 UTC

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The most powerful influences are unconscious in a way, as they can be known without being articulated. Articulation is powerful for self-improvement, but many concepts have been passed down that are not articulated, they are trained and imitated, culturally or otherwise.
I say this to say that while I think, at times, that while my own agency may be so small that it may as well not be there, I also firmly believe that what I do matters much more than what I think about it.
A concept of agency is practicable by many without any understanding or even any belief of the term, much less a deep one. In practice there seems to be the capability for this to be enacted without a granular concept.
So, as long as I do the thing I would do, if I did believe in such a concept, or make a habit of doing so, that matters a lot more than what my idiot self believed in the first place.
A right pattern of thinking then, is not as important as a right pattern of action, which I may have acquired by my upbringing, exposure to cultural influences, or habit and routine. I believe that encoded in upbringing, in observation of cultural forces, are ingrained the sum of a chain of the habits and routines of our forbears, they are the shortcut from caveman to astrophysicist, so to speak, that each person need not re-invent the entire system from first principles within their own lifetime (a daunting task). We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and not just in the realm of math and science. While perhaps less formal and articulated, surely as much knowledge must be codified within them, or we would not have progressed as we had to this point.
I think all this falls underneath the maxim: do the right thing all the time, even when you don't know what that is.
That's how you game the statistics. All you have to do is be better than random, and many small, correct actions make that more favorable for you. IIRC the house edge on the odds of a lot of casino card games are not much better than 51 or so percent, but in the aggregate, we know, and can prove mathematically that the house always wins in the end. If we are small in this world then subdivision of actions into small, consistently right ones seems to work, even when our concept of why it was right is off or unknown.
The what beats the why, though the why is the edge by which we can sometimes discover the what at a faster rate than cultural aggregation.

2023-03-16 05:32:21 UTC

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> twitter post from %CURRENT_TIMESTAMP% >= %CURRENT_YEAR%
> absolutely braindead thoughts splattered, still convulsing on a keyboard like so much gore
No fucking shit

2023-03-16 05:27:30 UTC

Let us FUCKING go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKuOH4gn2FE
(mashup album, I have a special place in my heart for them)

2023-03-16 05:22:54 UTC

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Why should all food be saccharine? You need to eat a variety of foods, not just those that are sweet.
Conceptually, I think language is the same, and in this analogy, the food for thought. I don't think higher order thoughts can exist without language that is hurtful or uncomfortable. Vapid "normie" types feed on nothing but sweets. They are obese of thought, gluts for positive, happy language.
I've thought about this a lot lately in context of the nostr mainstream/bitcoin proto-influencers and the culture clash with edgy fedi users. I have been looking for a way to describe in a more academic sense why you should be able to not just say but to call someone a nigger, a cunt, a bitch, whore, slut, faggot etc. Unrestricted thought cannot exist without unrestricted language. I don't even think you need a lot, but rocking the verbal boat so to speak is necessary to disrupt the vapid patterns of thought. Toss people into the water once in a while, but pull them back in the boat once they learn their lesson.

2023-03-16 05:14:15 UTC

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Telling a depressed person to killthemselves: no different from what's going on inside their own heads; pointless, and rude; dishonorable.
Telling a normal person to kill themselves: a sharp rebuke, a prompt to reflect; honorable.
Bit of a meme response, but context matters (duh), and sharp, distasteful language has a specific, and vital purpose in encouraging others to improve themselves.

2023-03-16 05:09:40 UTC

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I don't think that anything good in life happens quickly. If something good appears to have happened all of the sudden, I always suspect that there is an obscured path, but a path nonetheless that is long and often grueling leading up to it. Even for more deus ex machina type events like dramatic acts of charity.
Ultimately we are small creatures whose best hope for success is small, stubborn steps in a positive direction, in defiance of setbacks, which are often large and devastating when they finally reach us.
The human mind is a powerful tool for rationalization in favor of itself, and so I think we all, unless by conscious thought or depressive tendency can be tempted to think in terms of, "if only."
Nothing against you personally, of course. You may be correct, surely you know yourself better than the disembodied voice of bobby hill in your head as you read. It could just be massive cope from someone for whom, while life has gone well, it has rarely been directly attributable to my intent, but always to my actions, though I did not know their consequence.

2023-03-16 04:46:58 UTC

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My principal problem with the paid relays is that I haven't made up my mind yet whether I disagree with the premise.
I certainly can acknowledge the first-order effects of it, I just haven't decideded whether I think they are revolutionary for the good of future social media, or cancerous and going to be the end of all that is good and pure in the world.
Conceptually the most attractive thing to me is the removal of the paradigm of free stuff online meaning you are the product. A small voluntary fee from all users to help make the thing work sounds really really nice to me in my inner hippie free software commie brain. I just cannot decide whether this current iteration will metastasize and kill us all.

2023-03-16 04:13:04 UTC

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shite. I'm doing this wrong, apparently.

2023-03-16 04:03:34 UTC

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My "organic" so to speak reach is only about 9-10 relays according to your nrcheck tool. I suspect that ain't great comparatively speaking, but I'm somewhat less than uninterested in paid relays. As far as I can tell, no relays that receive my posts broadcast them to any others.
Maybe I look like a spam bot.

2023-03-16 03:17:15 UTC

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#[0]
relevant coincidence, lmao

2023-03-16 03:15:43 UTC

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I buy all my porn from local nostr thots with bitcoin
pura vida-ing my way to total dopamine saturation

2023-03-16 03:14:17 UTC

I am so sick of the shaka bra react.
Fuck you and your cow, client dev

2023-03-16 03:12:29 UTC

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dark nostr: pedophile edition

2023-03-16 03:10:02 UTC

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Fedi deletes have been around for ages, so long that some people purposefully disable them. Edits too.
Nostr not having consistent/clear quotes and/or reposts and which is which is hilarious to me.

2023-03-16 03:01:52 UTC

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Mixing verified on the front is a good insight I wouldn't have thought of. I would have assumed you would do it as some sort of flat score modifier on the output but I think your idea is much better.
By token, just some sort of special keyword pre/ap-pended? can that be gamed?

2023-03-16 02:55:45 UTC

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or you can do the logo

2023-03-16 02:55:30 UTC

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You can make what I'm working on.
An integrated nip-05 and image upload web service, so you don't have to rely on void.cat and nostr.build for that shit.
I'm leaving the ability to do websockets on the table so that if I want to do some memes with relays then I can. Leaving it for 0.2 because a relay is aquite a bit more in-depth than just a shitty media uploader and nip-05 provider

2023-03-16 02:51:33 UTC

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bad test, no cookie

2023-03-16 02:49:32 UTC

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I don't think there's much need to standardize via nips, but I bet a pull request for strfry or another pluggable to integrate rspamd or something would get in.
You might actually just be able to straight up use strfry's existing plugin system to implement something like that ad-hoc.
My ideal solution would be NIP-05 verification combined with bayesian filter to add a spam score that clients could use however they see fit, with some configurable floor beneath which the relay does not pass the message.
Maybe I should set up a relay and play with it, dunno.

2023-03-16 02:43:46 UTC

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> gitea and not gogs
fren...

2023-03-16 02:42:33 UTC

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local only word/bayesian filters would be cool too though, tbf. They just might not offer anything like bandwidth saving, if that was a goal

2023-03-16 02:40:46 UTC

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Bayesian filters a la email on relays are probably a really great idea.
Then a slider on clients to control what spam threshold is acceptable as not spam.

2023-03-16 02:26:28 UTC

Life pro tip: stay one social media platform ahead of the average e-celeb.

2023-03-15 22:13:31 UTC

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#[1] Cc #[2] and sharivegas (don't have you here) but I think you are both qualified relay operators to contribute to this discussion

2023-03-15 22:03:42 UTC

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Nostr's biggest issue is the proliferation of webshit clients