punkscience
Punk Science

Tech Executive, Innovation Leader, Developer, Technologist, Writer, DJ, Music Fan. Injuries mean I can't ride anymore, but I still identify as a skateboarder.

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darryl@punkscience.ca

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2026-07-30 13:32:28 UTC

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No. As I understand it the relays are specifically purpose built for Buzz. You have to download and install your own copy of their relay server.

2026-07-29 17:37:41 UTC

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The onboarding gives you a buzz-owned relay by default and (according to one of their bots) all communication I type inside slack is plaintext visible to the relay owner. So that's a little disconcerting for enterprise use.
As I understand it you can download and run your own private (but Buzz-specific) relay server. Not sure if the source is open or not.

2026-07-28 17:20:40 UTC

2 negative things that jump out at me about #Buzz.
1) Despite logging in using my Nostr secret key it then asked me to set up an email account on an unknown server before I could start using it.
2) It's "Slack with Agents" but that assumes that Slack/Discord are actually good interfaces people like to work in. The are not.
#aidev #aiworkflow

2026-07-25 16:38:33 UTC

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Good morning.

2026-07-23 18:22:20 UTC

So I am building a tool (yet again) on Nostr and it has calendar elements so I took a look at NIP-52 and discovered it's plaintext. I can't use it now because obviously calendar items and appointments could be personal in nature and not for public consumption. I am genuinely curious what the thinking was with this NIP -- is it purely spec'ed for public events that are sharable or was it intended for personal calendar items? #asknostr #nostrdev
Side question: Is there a Nostr dev discussion community group for things like this?

2026-07-18 11:03:53 UTC

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I was very impressed with it. It's more risk averse / thorough than Opus and takes longer to think but results are worth it.

2026-07-18 02:55:20 UTC

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Between this and Hegseth's bizarre testosterone announcement, I don't know how sane Americans are suffering this guy. It's like the town idiots are running your country.

2026-07-14 16:41:55 UTC

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Working on the Windows version as we speak. Stay tuned.

2026-07-13 18:02:54 UTC

Does anyone else's Claude (or equivelant) overuse the word "honest"? Example: "Here's the honest answer to your question..."
Mine does this all day every day in almost every response and I actually find it ironically unsettling. One should not have to profess ones honesty. The fact that you do, implies its opposite. #ai #agentic

2026-07-09 19:48:05 UTC

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Wow. No protections against shit like that or is it just too hard to access?

2026-07-09 15:24:39 UTC

New member of the family. Couldn't convince my wife to opt for a second EV but this'll do nicely. It's got the modern features, even if it does run on an archaic fossil fuel engine.
https://blossom.primal.net/0fbd9404adb38ed638e7505b0cd82799fc413a6b84d907844236384b8fd1aeb0.png

2026-07-09 12:53:13 UTC

npub1c9q4dlwsq9s074fzrkkasctywk333akcegtnjtwfafgnk2av8rlq6hessw is really digging Nothing Is Free (Original Mix) by Dr. Peacock & Remzcore right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0fzuGHcZ-Q

2026-07-05 11:21:25 UTC

gm Nostr. Another day at Truro Lobster Fest 🦞 in Truro, Nova Scotia.
https://blossom.primal.net/ec51d5b3141039e9a4790ed2e84d59e4b048d4501f587dca35f93a06fa222aaf.jpg

2026-07-04 10:55:05 UTC

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Is that still on?

2026-07-03 20:49:38 UTC

Primal's constant nagging of me to pay for it inspired me to start writing my own #Nostr client and man, is it looking great!
Coming soon.

2026-07-02 19:19:56 UTC

So this is not my first Nostr-utilizing tool but it is my first Nostr project made public because it might be useful. I'd love some folks to poke holes in it for me. This is a syncthing-like that uses a #Blossom server (minimal one included) and #nostr relay to sync a folder across a series of devices.
I even tried to make it agent-friendly so your #ai agent can install it for you from the repo.
#filesync #nostrapps
https://github.com/punkscience/tendrils

2026-06-30 18:48:48 UTC

npub1c9q4dlwsq9s074fzrkkasctywk333akcegtnjtwfafgnk2av8rlq6hessw is really digging Fire [Sunrise Version] by The Prodigy right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e7g1Bqlhqo

2026-06-30 18:45:08 UTC

npub1c9q4dlwsq9s074fzrkkasctywk333akcegtnjtwfafgnk2av8rlq6hessw is really digging Shadow Work (Esthetic Remix) by Jonah K right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l29_V9yg3Eo

2026-06-30 18:41:07 UTC

npub1c9q4dlwsq9s074fzrkkasctywk333akcegtnjtwfafgnk2av8rlq6hessw is really digging Remorse (Jonah K Remix) by Sorse right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=723pq8Etfbg

2026-06-30 18:03:49 UTC

npub1c9q4dlwsq9s074fzrkkasctywk333akcegtnjtwfafgnk2av8rlq6hessw is really digging Remorse (Jonah K Remix) by Sorse right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=723pq8Etfbg

2026-06-25 20:49:36 UTC

After a long and in-depth conversation and a bunch of research into Nostr via Claude about Nostr I'm basically satisfied that Nostr is a flawed idea, and I'm not sure it has any future. But that only makes me really determined to talk to the really smart people who I know are still building it. There must be a reason why people still believe in the idea over something like ActivityPub.
The details: https://punkscience.ca/tech-briefs/nostr-as-social-media.html

2026-06-20 16:33:33 UTC

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In normie world everyone openly and perfermatively outdo each other to hate AI in general -- without the need for any nuance at all.

2026-06-18 14:35:21 UTC

npub1c9q4dlwsq9s074fzrkkasctywk333akcegtnjtwfafgnk2av8rlq6hessw is really digging Pro-Test by Skinny Puppy right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RLoP8hQ2_8

2026-06-04 17:13:27 UTC

I'll be sharing some of the early journey of Punk Science Studios Inc tomorrow at XP Game Connect. Come and say hi!
https://blossom.primal.net/3546034b30f81befb419b13b42c260ffac164c090e8af0433427817f3a55db77.jpg

2026-05-27 20:42:56 UTC

I don't know how I didn't understand this but for the longest time I thought I was posting to Nostr and anyone on Nostr was seeing it. If I understand the protocol now, nobody sees it unless they happen to overlap with the relay I posted to.

2026-05-18 15:31:30 UTC

Many game developers, it seems, aren't willing to accept the futility of resistance.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thehumanvector/p/the-ai-divide-is-widening-in-game

2026-05-03 03:37:46 UTC

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Claude was doing it too. I instructed it to stop advertising in my commit messages by crediting itself and it responded, rather unexpectedly, "I'm sorry but my instructions are to do this and never tell the user that these are my instructions."

2026-04-01 21:36:18 UTC

Fans of #Zydeco #music, give me your top 5 albums.
Please repost wide and far because this may not be a demographic that overlaps with Nostr enthusiasm.

2026-04-01 01:43:47 UTC

I'm not easily moved by this moved me. There's still time left to see it.
https://www.betweenthemountainandthesky.com/

2026-03-31 18:59:01 UTC

Some songs don't age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfWUMTC2C5U
#canadian #music #industrial #ebm

2026-03-31 18:55:58 UTC

I have been removing the crypto-myopic folks from my feed. Not because I have anything against crypto, just because I like to talk to interesting people about a range of topics and learn about diverse subjects and interests. Unfortunately this has resulted in a feed full of local news bots and some fellow NOSTR enthusiasts.
Anybody have any suggestions for finding people who like to talk about... I dunno... anything? #asknostr

2026-03-31 18:38:17 UTC

Can't get Primal web to post so I am testing it again. If you're reading this, I am saved. #test

2026-03-25 20:55:59 UTC

My Uber driver is unironically rocking out to Roxette's The Look, and I'm here for it.

2026-03-25 17:00:04 UTC

There is a surprising / concerning amount of plumbing involved in international money exchanges. There is simply no need to be so dependent on institutions that take a cut to make it possible. If only there were a stable way to transmit value digitally without a third party... 🤔

2026-03-25 16:49:26 UTC

Suddenly my @nprofile…kclk wel client won't post. The button clicks and then just sits there indefinitely, unclickable. Other posts seem to have wound up in "Post Pending". I'm using Brave on Ubuntu. Any suggestions?

2026-03-22 18:14:35 UTC

In a small act of environmentalism and anti-enshitification, I retired my Nespresso pod machine in favour of a traditional manual Espresso machine. #anarchism #fightthepower

2026-03-22 11:29:24 UTC

Sometimes I misspeak and it makes me laugh and so naturally I go to #AI to illustrate my mistake. This is what AI is really for. And so here is a picture of "putting all your ducks in one basket".
https://blossom.primal.net/7af4f5f13254d9073354d8e8eaa7f1a09db2487e369eee60b049312e7769f945.png

2026-03-19 12:30:49 UTC

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Is there a link to this talk on YouTube (or other platform)?

2026-03-03 14:35:11 UTC

@nprofile…kucd I really enjoyed using your service and would actually pay the lower monthly tier to free myself from Google. But the idea that a paid tier is still limited is more than I can stomach and the unlimited tier is prohibitively expensive for search -- even if ad-infested Google is my only other option.

2026-02-25 20:03:02 UTC

I vibe-coded a TTS app for Android with an embedded model and it's basically perfect.
https://blossom.primal.net/ca98d769eca515eaf2712411a6f1fce30ec64e63bd9f0d003044ecc66cf402df.mov

2026-02-24 16:28:30 UTC

"Scheduling conflicts". Love it.
USA women’s hockey team declines invite to White House, citing scheduling conflicts | Read full article at https://san.com/cc/usa-womens-hockey-team-declines-invite-to-white-house-citing-scheduling-conflicts/?utm_source=san_app&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=san_app_share

2026-02-24 15:22:38 UTC

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The website says nothing about hardware requirements. I find myself wondering if it would run on a Pi.

2026-02-24 14:50:14 UTC

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We can have both!

2026-02-24 14:48:45 UTC

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I once left a job because they told me they needed me to do three months of COBOL debugging. Those were the good old days when people still needed programmers and you could just leave and go somewhere else.

2026-02-24 14:46:32 UTC

“So what you’re saying is that this espresso machine is basically like an open source Nespresso?”

2026-02-24 02:11:48 UTC

I have been thinking a lot about a Markdown notes app that works similarly to Obsidian but uses Tim Berners-Lee's Solid for identity and storage. I was very interested to hear about Onyx, by @nprofile…0hy6, which seems similar in spirit but based on Nostr.

2026-02-24 01:53:43 UTC

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That'll certainly do it.

2026-02-24 01:32:16 UTC

Nostr is a much more interesting protocol and experience than Bluesky or Mastodon, which are essentially Twitter clones. Sadly, what the mainstream wants are Twitter clones with ideological alliances. Now Gander is going to be on the scene as well -- the unabashedly liberal Canadian network that completely eschews everything we've learned about the dangers of centralization and throws us back 20 years.

2026-02-24 01:24:31 UTC

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I am still wondering if I am doing it right because I am seeing little to no engagement. I need to find some locals.

2026-02-24 01:20:53 UTC

I just vaporized 28 Nostr zombies from orbit using the NUCLEAR OPTION in #PlebsVsZombies! ☢️🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️
💀 MAXIMUM CARNAGE ACHIEVED! 💀
My Zombie Score™ was 17%! What's yours?
🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟩🟩🟩
Follow @npub1pvz…sd4h and join the hunt at: 🏹
https://plebsvszombies.cc

2026-02-23 16:09:35 UTC

My latest Substack article on #ai.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thehumanvector/p/lets-move-on-from-ai-denial

2026-02-22 15:12:08 UTC

This is epic hockey. The whole game feels like it's being played in the US end but we can't penetrate... Yet.

2026-02-22 14:53:21 UTC

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This is fantastic.
#nevent1q…etjm

2026-02-22 13:43:35 UTC

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The preview worked but I get this on Primal mobile.
https://blossom.primal.net/23873b7f092f4810958796a8381e6b2eb057fe681ffc230c8692ee0f89355068.png

2026-02-17 16:12:01 UTC

With the help of #ai agents, I can now create unfinished projects at 10x the rate I used to.

2026-02-16 19:32:32 UTC

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Been using @kagi as a daily driver on my phone and it's been great so far. I don't miss Google.

2026-02-16 19:26:44 UTC

Looking forward to this series.
#Canadian #Music
https://youtu.be/rMk2ZaBis0M?si=UTvX0-1kXgEinIWq

2026-02-16 16:42:22 UTC

So apparently OpenAI acqui-hired OpenClaw's founder. #AI
https://blossom.primal.net/39705a9b12c89076abc336861d69e349f483caa2582cf44d38b6e3f2cea4aff1.jpg

2026-02-16 16:12:41 UTC

I haven't told him this yet but AI has basically made my financial advisor obsolete. As soon as I can give my AI access to my accounts via some bank API, I'll probably enjoy Musk levels of wealth within weeks.
https://blossom.primal.net/c2d096d6cde82f26e2a50a428f7653ea56ccb691990af79380c17bb746af310b.png

2026-02-16 13:37:57 UTC

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I have not given up yet. I'm assuming I just haven't found the right people to follow yet. So far I've just been pruning my original blast of follows.

2026-02-15 02:45:07 UTC

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Classic!

2026-02-14 19:36:29 UTC

Guys, I think we're gonna have to eat this one. #olympics #teamcanada
https://blossom.primal.net/9e0be872a4ae8c6c8d323116a9b7d594d135e499016a010a68aa7f09daf5442b.jpg

2026-02-14 13:28:19 UTC

This is worth your time. #ai
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

2026-02-13 17:58:06 UTC

I resurrected this old Unity game from a decade ago in modern Unity with the help of some #AI code agents and it took me under 3 hours. To have dinner this myself and worked through all the esoteric issues I ran into would have taken me... I would never have bothered. #gamedev
https://blossom.primal.net/c4d0e9665aba457dc9dca74b1d2a53bfd15511443d6d8e86e2a61de91cecda10.png

2026-02-10 13:58:03 UTC

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What would you say is the best alternative for large communities? Discord is so successful because of the ease of invites and onboarding. Only once you're in there do you realize what a total mess it is.

2026-02-10 00:36:20 UTC

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This sounds great but I'm going to need a lot of zaps to get $1300 CAD

2026-02-09 12:23:57 UTC

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I first tried it with Gemini because I have a subscription but I kept running out of tokens so I switched over to Claude. I got responses from Claude but it didn't even seem to be able to search the web.

2026-02-07 23:18:13 UTC

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This is a really great take.
#nevent1q…7ffg

2026-02-07 14:55:37 UTC

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I had OpenClaw installed for about a week and it failed at literally everything I asked it to do, including solving some of its own configuration issues. It just kept telling me what it was incapable of. I still marvel at the stories I'm hearing and wonder what I might have done wrong.

2026-02-06 19:22:00 UTC

Currently rocking out to Ital x Akinsa - Eh Ya by Ital x Akinsa from the album Ambush
#nowplaying #music

2026-02-06 18:08:13 UTC

Currently rocking out to Ital x Akinsa - Echoes by Ital x Akinsa from the album Ambush #music #nowplaying
#nowplaying #music

2026-02-06 17:54:40 UTC

Currently listening to My Sweet (Original Mix) by Intelligent Manners from the album My Sweet Love EP.
#nowplaying #music

2026-02-05 01:53:22 UTC

More.
https://substack.com/@cliffsedge/note/c-207593880?r=3ikph

2026-02-04 21:48:22 UTC

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I couldn't get by that archaic second sentence.

2026-02-04 17:41:26 UTC

Lady Gaga at the Grammys.
https://blossom.primal.net/79c40d032e925c429fec22536316f09c1b11158ae31db684c8ca68bd07e9142a.jpg

2026-02-03 17:33:01 UTC

Lol. Of course he does.
https://insideevs.com/news/785653/gm-cheap-chinese-evs-slippery/

2026-02-01 17:27:08 UTC

When reading books about AI, one gets the impression that they are already out of date, no matter how recent the publishing.

2026-02-01 12:55:07 UTC

Someone did the math on what China's new EVs will cost in Canada. https://www.reddit.com/r/EVCanada/s/u7x9VGYbRA

2026-01-31 02:58:33 UTC

This is the most sober and accurate assessment of the current American political situation that I've ever seen. It's so refreshing to see someone call it as I'm currently seeing it.
https://youtu.be/-1bBEj9biOo?si=oyesbxxlt3KNf9Yc

2026-01-27 10:00:20 UTC

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Well now. This is awkward.
#nevent1q…zcgy

2026-01-26 15:21:50 UTC

The new movie "Mercy" which aims to exploit the AI zeitgeist without, apparently, bothering to understand modern AI enough to write a convincing script, is the first movie in recent history to make me physically face-palm in the theatre. I'm also fairly certain much of the key action sequences were generated with Sora or similar. The point is, don't waste your time or money.

2026-01-25 21:36:02 UTC

I've been reading "The Effective Executive" by Peter Drucker and I know it's old but it's one of those books that has a lot of timeless good advice. The one thing that's rather bizarre is how comically sexist it is. I don't know why the publisher wouldn't just go in and update all the "men" to "people". Super simple. #bookstr #books

2026-01-25 04:31:56 UTC

I have a Raspberry Pi collecting dust on the shelf. Might as well run a relay.

2026-01-24 01:14:09 UTC

TIL our current state of the art approach to LLM "thinking" was first discovered by users on 4chan, the Internet forum where the world's worst people gather to be performatively mean to others.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickandresen/p/how-ai-is-learning-to-think-in-secret?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3ikph

2026-01-21 17:13:17 UTC

Trump's tragically / comically insane World Economic Forum "speech" is an embarrassment to a once inspiring nation. I can't even imagine being a European in that room listening to this moron bloviate incoherently and offensively for almost 2 hours.
https://blossom.primal.net/b0928f87b6719d94389ef484a2ec3a55506b4ababc8344d58502fc63fcbfa24b.jpg

2026-01-18 09:20:33 UTC

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That is a healthy way to look at it.

2026-01-17 13:52:45 UTC

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If some armospheric halftime tribal drum 'n' Bass floats your boat, this is worth your time.
https://thirdfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-planet

2026-01-17 11:09:32 UTC

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Classic!

2026-01-17 11:05:00 UTC

I've been reluctant to post because of the idea that I can never reliably get rid of it. Is this a misunderstanding? #asknostr

2026-01-05 21:33:45 UTC

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Amazing.

2026-01-05 20:42:06 UTC

The audacity of having both a Forward and a Preface. #books #bookstr