James Lewis

Husband, father, #Catholic #Christian, #businessOwner, Bitcoiner, freedom lover, word nerd, mechanical engineer #dadstr

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2025-07-23 13:47:26 UTC

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Some mechanism must exist to propagate media from user to user, and that may mean the relays are the clients, but it still means something must relay notes and other stuff.

2025-07-23 13:38:00 UTC

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🤣
#nevent1q…fy7y

2025-07-23 12:13:05 UTC

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I would be really interested if not for being hired on as an engineer for my friend's business. I did brand coaching/consulting for eight years before this.

2025-07-22 13:44:30 UTC

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What do you think?
#nevent1q…nhv4

2025-07-22 13:42:52 UTC

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We're about to leave for it, actually. It'll be Thursday through Saturday.

2025-07-17 02:14:30 UTC

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It's because it's not his money*, and he has all of it. What else did we expect?
*Every dollar printed is a dollar stolen from the holders of dollars and those who labor for and trade in dollars.

2025-07-16 17:22:47 UTC

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Solution: don't reside in CA/NY/blue states, stay out of hospitals, use a midwife and not a OBGYN, and generally don't make yourself visible.

2025-07-12 18:59:52 UTC

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Using the image of the state in your trade and commerce in the first place is more so.

2025-07-11 16:55:33 UTC

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Yeah, the same with our salaries. The government didn't just steal last year's money but this year's too by inflation.

2025-07-11 16:54:07 UTC

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It's going to "zero point two mil" right before "one point zero"

2025-07-07 01:29:45 UTC

Double rainbow all the way across the sky!
https://image.nostr.build/c12dc7c44ae9b70a63155f111d25032b56c08b58af9694b5951e18a26e3bedb9.jpg

2025-07-03 18:47:36 UTC

Excellent talk from @nprofile…5cfd
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pef22g53zsg

2025-07-03 11:42:01 UTC

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Yes, we really need to make a presence here.
What advantages might they expect, though? Direct support from viewers is one.

2025-07-03 11:40:15 UTC

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What sort of features would make it catholic?

2025-07-01 13:48:34 UTC

So, I'll be going to the Catholic Creators Conference at the end of the month. What's the best argument for small to medium channels to start publishing over Nostr, too? And what can we do to get them here?
#Catholic #creators #growNostr

2025-06-22 21:36:27 UTC

Who has ever seen a capacitor shed it's casing without completely obliterating? I'm pretty sure that little rolled up piece of brown paper thing is the blown cap.
Also, should I count on this not being the only blown component?
https://image.nostr.build/dff4df424caab03a55275c9d93195d1f950b6ca53849bdaa956d0d2108208078.jpg

2025-06-20 14:39:12 UTC

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What sort of cryptography schemes are considered post-quantum? As far as I know, SHA2 is only conjectured to be quantum resistant, and SHA3 is designed to be quantum resistant. Are there encryption or signature schemes similar?

2025-06-19 00:13:35 UTC

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They can't make money. They can only redistribute it by theft. Printing new bills just makes that process for efficient while also accomplishing the lowering of real wages.

2025-06-18 01:29:48 UTC

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It was flipping amazing, just an FYI.
#nevent1q…6mqy

2025-06-18 01:06:22 UTC

Would you believe me if I said this is keto?
This is one of the best fat head dough pizzas I've ever made! Fresh herbs are the trick!
https://image.nostr.build/8fa5a2a9c2bf0a6bd21acc638dc5652cb665013cd2a3fda1a397f12c65a22373.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/af116b95c341b562f81c978e39bedebe439fb548185f2ae962ce5fe81ded5677.jpg

2025-06-17 23:23:43 UTC

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Also, if you're gonna drink something tasty, do spirits without added sugar and make your own sodas using stevia sweetened flavors.
Sometimes it's hard to know what has added sugar when it comes to alcoholic beverages, but a good rule of thumb is if it tastes too sweet, it's hot sugar.
For sodas, I like the stevia sweetened water enhancers from Aldi.

2025-06-17 00:03:59 UTC

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For email, I say in the subject line "This is Not a Drill," and in the body "This is a test," and I optionally add "Drills put holes in things; tests see if they still work."

2025-06-10 17:30:07 UTC

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Good to know. Thanks!

2025-06-10 15:27:32 UTC

The FSSP has more vocations than some wholeountries! Good news for the Church as a whole.
https://youtu.be/uXclM6wtiv4

2025-06-10 02:47:50 UTC

@nprofile…970s, I am getting a new phone. What's the best way to get my wallet moved over? Enter the seed and let the process do its thing? Or can I move my channels too?

2025-06-08 00:24:32 UTC

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I've actually been trying to teach myself Rust for exactly this purpose. I haven't had much spare time to do my self-teaching, unfortunately.

2025-06-08 00:11:40 UTC

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√(π^3−e^2+6) is more random

2025-06-08 00:06:33 UTC

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Also, boomers translating zoomer speech

2025-06-08 00:04:56 UTC

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Not even once

2025-06-07 21:37:44 UTC

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That enormous debt is fortunately defined in dollars, which will go to zero against bitcoin along with all the other fiat currencies, so the governed can in fifteen to thirty years pay off it's whole debt with the bitcoin it currently holds and school have some left over.
Gold standard, then green non-standard, then orange standard is the natural progression of life.

2025-06-06 20:46:06 UTC

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Wibe c0de 👻 boo! Spooky!

2025-06-05 17:56:53 UTC

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The best spam filter is a whitelist of real people you personally know.

2025-06-05 17:54:57 UTC

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No better smell exists than onion and potato frying in tallow with a steak on a hot skillet or smoking over hickory or mesquite, especially with a nice, neat whiskey in one hand and a cigar in the other.

2025-06-04 23:22:01 UTC

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A very interesting idea!
#nevent1q…rq8r

2025-06-02 17:42:22 UTC

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Doxxed. Having a mortgage of less than $5k/mo is only possible in, like, two places in Canada.
Thanks, governments of the world, for the increase to our cost of housing.

2025-06-01 22:54:27 UTC

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"Not reading for 72 hours isn't easy...you'll be surprised how easy it becomes"
This is real. I do a 40+ hour fast for Tritium (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday) each year, and each year it gets easier. At some point, I think I'm hoping to have to make it significantly longer if it is to remain a difficult and efficacious spiritual discipline. I've begun to feel just amazing some holy Saturday afternoon.

2025-06-01 12:57:50 UTC

It is a mad, mad world, and it has been mad for over a century, but I think perhaps the madness of some has been awakened into the horror of realizing the degree of the madness of all his neighbors.
https://youtu.be/7CIY-JsewS0

2025-05-31 21:12:23 UTC

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That's still 0.5% if of all Bitcoin. That's incredibly small.

2025-05-31 21:08:28 UTC

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Case sensitive units already exist with 1 Calorie = 1000 calories and 1MW = 1,000,000,000 mW. I'm not too terribly opposed to it.

2025-05-28 23:09:01 UTC

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I'm a man of principle. I participate as little as possible in the debt-first financial paradigm.

2025-05-27 19:47:04 UTC

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I look forward to the medical singularity, at which time, getting the information one needs to improve one's health is both rapid and cheap, and the data gathering to improve diagnoses is basically real-time.

2025-05-27 04:00:53 UTC

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I imagine that repairs the continuity of discontinuities

2025-05-27 03:35:43 UTC

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I don't mind the expression

2025-05-27 03:29:17 UTC

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A hole is a region of discontinuity, and a net is made of an array of holes, so a hole in a net is a region of discontinuity of discontinuities, and we all know the negative of a negative is always positive, thus a hole in a net is a solid section through which nothing may pass.

2025-05-27 00:04:49 UTC

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RSS is all XML over HTTP that lists content. Just like some RSS podcasts have episode thumbnails, but not all RSS clients will interpret it, I'm sure you could convey multiple channels in one URL call, or simply have a separate path for each channel you want to publish, but it depends on the client to interpret it.

2025-05-26 11:24:01 UTC

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May God have mercy on that wretched soul. May that imminent death bring him to his senses, causing him to make public repentance.

2025-05-26 11:21:01 UTC

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Afraid to fully commit. It's the same reaction to the "does God exist" question.

2025-05-26 02:34:23 UTC

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He's terribly afraid to commit to Christianity

2025-05-25 17:17:38 UTC

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The trick is a simple system of verifiability and ignoring those who work against the rules.
(I call it "simple" because, relative to the conventional system, it is extraordinarily simple and elegant."

2025-05-25 14:44:37 UTC

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Insurance of almost every type, including "extended warranties."
Fractional reserve lending
"Your home is an investment"
Student loans

2025-05-24 14:48:25 UTC

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In that case, I'm totally serious and about to puke at your disgusting behavior

2025-05-24 14:46:11 UTC

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This whole thread is a joke. We're both in on it.

2025-05-24 14:45:11 UTC

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Not only "what is money?" in the sense that they don't see it, but we are all questioning what money actually is. Fiat currency was called money, but it's actually a lie.
#nevent1q…xyks

2025-05-24 14:44:40 UTC

Ideal money is abstract goods, a thing by which all men may contract their labor and trade their goods, and by this labor and trade does money gain value.
To gain money means one has traded it for his goods or has labored for it, but a ruling class has stolen from owners their goods and enslaved otherwise free men by trading not that for which they have labored nor traded but printed, and it our own day and age simply incremented a number in a database.
This is fiat currency, for the ruling class by their fiat declares themselves the holder of what they callmoney. Such a declaration is a lie and theft, and it must be condemned on not only civil grounds but religious and moral.

2025-05-24 14:25:54 UTC

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Your ill-developed pallet 😂

2025-05-24 14:24:15 UTC

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🤢

2025-05-24 14:11:53 UTC

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That's just cinnamon and sugar, maybe molasses, and maybe bread crumbs. That's not the weird part. The weird part is marketing it by relating it to a childhood memory, but rather that it works, not that they'd do it.

2025-05-24 14:06:41 UTC

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Milisat is typically reserved for node operators, but once the average person needs to be conscious of it, will it keep that name? Maybe we'll see slang, like "buck" for "dollar", for different denominations or bitcoin, such as "bit" for "milisat". I kinda like the sound of it.

2025-05-24 01:34:20 UTC

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I find the debate funny. There's no real reason to rename it. I do wonder what the future will call it, though. "Bits" was never very widely used to mean microbitcoin, to my knowledge, so maybe that'll be what we call a mili-sat once we need that granularity.

2025-05-23 12:57:32 UTC

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i thought the idea was to remove the zeros behind the bitcoins so 0.00001000 bitcoins became 1 bitcoin

2025-05-23 12:55:27 UTC

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Paper hands

2025-05-23 02:00:49 UTC

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Made my first in-person, real life Bitcoin purchase on Sunday! The revolution has begun!
#nevent1q…fux6

2025-05-23 01:14:52 UTC

Happy pizza day! I would in fact part with some Bitcoin if someone would make a decent-priced keto pizza.
https://image.nostr.build/3101d7119799a52bd27bca24120e7addfbfe0c78c602f084f792c5c94a09d911.jpg

2025-05-23 01:11:15 UTC

For real...
https://image.nostr.build/638d021e569a2593433d8629e375dea89cf8c71619e2aae534226454c4365805.jpg

2025-05-22 15:56:35 UTC

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Yes, for work at least, because my CAD software doesn't have a Linux version 🤦 My personal PC is Linux, however. I'm thinking about trying out Arch.

2025-05-20 23:36:30 UTC

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Might be classified as Forex here in the US. Is Forex not taxable?

2025-05-20 00:47:17 UTC

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Ooh! Ooh! How about case sensitivity?
1 Bitcoin = 100M bitcoin
1kcal = 1Cal
1000mW = 0.000001MW
Makes total sense!

2025-05-19 18:02:56 UTC

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I'm sure the level of precision is because it's an inversion of the bitcoin price in dollars to the cent, and their script doesn't round it to the nearest Satoshi or milisat.

2025-05-19 15:07:31 UTC

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"Reduce confusion"?!? 😂
If we were to do that, it should have been when 100M base units was not valued at $100k, but at $1k. A smaller user base would be more accepting and easier to inform, especially because they were not normies.
I agree, however, that the high value of the base unit makes it a challenge for the uninitiated, not knowing that you can trade in tiny bits, not only in whole coins. Generally speaking, coins are not meant to be broken up, so there's a verbal connotation to the whole unit being indivisible.
Sats are easy enough, though, I think. We can also use mili- and micro- to denote other denominations as we need.

2025-05-18 21:58:11 UTC

A relaxed Sunday afternoon after a first communion mass at the world's most beautiful church (St Francis de Sales Oratory in #StL).
https://m.primal.net/QwBn.jpg

2025-05-18 18:54:02 UTC

Boom! #steaknshake
https://image.nostr.build/521385bd0777ca79510b9453ce03372c888b159baf294f79f1f295808cee74af.jpg

2025-05-17 14:10:30 UTC

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I heard they were planning on it! I didn't know it rolled out yesterday.
Steak n' Shake uses real money and real beef tallow 👌

2025-05-17 14:07:59 UTC

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Gonna go to a Steak n' Shake later!
#nevent1q…ykds

2025-05-17 13:20:07 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/MH9Y6pUGODA

2025-05-14 12:48:56 UTC

Does/is @nprofile…nzge support/going to support Knots?

2025-05-14 12:47:39 UTC

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Floof hair is cultural degradation. 😂

2025-05-12 19:08:57 UTC

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Actual refugees. All those "but what about the vegetable pickers" type lib racists will eat their words as these refugees actually become farmers here because they're not getting raped and murdered on their SA plots of land by roving gangs.

2025-05-11 15:26:46 UTC

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The premise Roger Verr's book is Core devs going rogue. Verr argued that people were unable or unwilling to go against them, so they hijacked Bitcoin. Note operators switching implementations now disproves they premise.

2025-05-11 15:16:50 UTC

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I love being able to zap these, rather than supporting through fiat

2025-05-11 14:26:25 UTC

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Same!

2025-05-11 14:19:30 UTC

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Yeah, I kept publishing that I had to switch npubs. I accidentally leaked my nsec. It was in a photo that got quickly deleted, and I am somewhat certain it wouldn't have been used, but still...

2025-05-11 02:37:36 UTC

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My wife grew up on the same large plot of land as some extended family, including my wife's grandparents and two sets of cousins, aunt, and uncle. I was hoping to do so, too, but money was never good enough to get it, but then my children are older by too much to have the same arrangement of growing up surrounded by cousins. Might not happen.

2025-05-10 14:03:11 UTC

The day of the election, I was at first very excited to have our first pontiff born in the United States, thinking this is a sign of the end of the animosity from Rome.
Yesterday, I was more apprehensive as I learned of some of His stances and pay record.
Today, I am hopeful. He delivered an actually decent homily! I am sorry to say the bar was set very low, but I more now that through Leo XIV we are able to heal the divide in our Church.
I am hopeful that he is young enough and being a native English speaker he will be able to dialogue with us in the English speaking world--especially in his home, the United States--to learn of our love and need for Tradition; that we might see that the "migrant" problem that we in the US and in Europe have is not an issue of a lack of charity toward distant neighbors but one of a right and responsibility to self-protection; that we would again become a missionary Church that converts the heretics and pagans to the one, true Faith, rather than repeat the free-Masonic mantras of equality of religions; and that we would cease the pandering to the media, trying to be nice and not offend the world, especially in regards to sexual issues.
These are my hopes and prayers.

2025-05-10 03:22:46 UTC

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Interesting!

2025-05-09 17:56:03 UTC

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Litecoin? I didn't know it had zaps!

2025-05-09 11:29:12 UTC

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Whoa!
I might have to get a burger there when they make it final!
Next is to orange pill the farmers' market!
#nevent1q…sxjp

2025-05-09 11:26:35 UTC

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I'm sure this only applies to Missouri tax, not federal level taxation. *That* will be the day! It's what keeps adoption low, I believe.

2025-05-09 00:20:33 UTC

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Not cool. Not even funny satire. Be better.

2025-05-09 00:17:55 UTC

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Especially popes named Leo

2025-05-09 00:15:26 UTC

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His namesake predecessor wrote Rarum Novarum, the preeminent Catholic social teaching, which covers labor ethics, and he has spent decades in third world South America (Peru), so money and currency should be something he ought to be addressing.
If he could condemn printing money and thus stealing from the populace, that would be step one. Step two might be to speak on what good money actually is, which will then allow us to show how Bitcoin meets the criteria and is a better money than all its predecessors.

2025-05-08 19:23:58 UTC

Havebus papam! Deo Gratias.
It is my hope and prayer that he be led by the Holy spirit into great holiness and lead us likewise.

2025-05-07 14:39:06 UTC

Took my beautiful wife to a nice dinner for her birthday. We looked pretty good!
https://image.nostr.build/56af2524ccbc48d3ac5b8ac2c171d7b7ad58bfe322d416444085be86fedfea49.jpg

2025-05-06 19:14:46 UTC

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There is *some* argument for other data, specifically hash proofs. This will be indirectly momentary data.
I think 1:1 backed side-chains are a good idea, and we can prove and secure balances within that chain via the root of a Merkel tree on L1, and a small payload (32kb or less) from the other client.

2025-05-04 18:39:58 UTC

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First choice, for no matter how many the trolley has slain, there remain ahead of it an infinite number of people for whom an indefinite period of time remains before their own demise.

2025-05-03 15:18:08 UTC

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Why store the actual data on-chain, though? Why ought it not be just a proof of the data, and another distributed storage system (like blossom) does and shares the data?

2025-05-03 15:12:41 UTC

Interesting idea for a Nostr client: parental controlled feed and a locked-down child's client. Secondary client only queries and actively filters based on endorsement of a primary npub. As loose as "needs a signature from an endorsed npub" to as tight as "only notes specifically endorsed," and this could also be per note type. This could also be set up for chat in the first style filter.
This would be great for a more free and open kids-mode in which we could even share and subscribe to each other's kids content. Chat, games, video/audio/media, etc.
Very interesting idea!

2025-05-01 00:12:24 UTC

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Nice! I'm gonna have to try this out!

2025-05-01 00:10:54 UTC

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Asinine, nonsensical, and criminal

2025-05-01 00:06:18 UTC

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The issue is that we have no regulation against doing business with these kinds of people, and there's always someone willing to skirt the rules, so those who do business with these foreign degenerates will cause others to need to follow suit or go out of business. Trump should be thanked for reducing the profitability of slave labor via the tariffs.

2025-04-30 23:58:18 UTC

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I don't care who you are. Gun tricks are awesome.