vinney...axkl

WoT/DCoSL R&D with https://brainstorm.world

- Pet project: https://catallax.network - decentralized labor/bounty protocol
- Order print books with bitcoin! https://whitepaperbooks.com
- Convert web pages to nostr longform posts: https://github.com/vcavallo/ReadToRelay

Public Key

npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl

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vcavallo@vinneycavallo.com

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spatia-arcana.com

nostr.cloud.vinney.xyz

nos.lol

nostr.land

relay.primal.net

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2026-05-30 19:36:11 UTC

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multple people can tag profiles on https://tags.brainstorm.world and then you can generate lists (and follow packs) from those tags with the "Pin" option

2026-05-30 19:34:14 UTC

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i have no hard evidence but i've felt like they've shadowbanned me from trending.

2026-05-30 02:11:39 UTC

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thank you for this! i'll be there in a few years, too. totally agree

2026-05-30 00:52:27 UTC

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i keep eating meat but never seem to inflate! unless you count muscle mass ;)

2026-05-30 00:50:34 UTC

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none

2026-05-29 22:05:40 UTC

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i coinicedentally got a framework recently as well. took it as an excuse to finally pill myself on NixOS - which is an absolute joy. i don't know how i survived linux before it

2026-05-29 21:49:10 UTC

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been great for me. better experience than iOS by a longshot

2026-05-29 21:48:34 UTC

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Let me know if you have questions! I did this two or three years ago and couldn't be happier.

2026-05-29 21:23:06 UTC

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yep. my local grass-fed supplier takes bitcoin, too - even better!!

2026-05-29 21:04:39 UTC

insulate yourself from inflation: buy a chest freezer. and a lot of meat

2026-05-29 20:43:17 UTC

One way to explain nostr and the broader, related movements to normies, in case it's helpful to you:
If you're familiar with Wikipedia, you might be aware that anyone _can_ edit Wikipedia - but the final say over what information is available is determined by a team of editors. All well and good for Wikiepedia, it's a "centralized entity" that is rightfully incentivized to have some degree of control over its content.
What we're doing is allowing for "many wikipedias" all in the same place, where the **consumer** determines which writers and which institutions they choose to trust for their information. The point of view you inhabit at any given time - who you trust, what you believe, etc. - determines your experience. And you are free to adjust this at your leisure, with no loss of access or functionality. And "Wikipedia" is just an example - we're applying this paradigm to all digital communications and applications.
If you happen to go along with whatever the current zeitgeist is for a given platform or area of information or social experience, you wouldn't notice much of a difference using a system like I'm describing.
And if it sounds "scary" or "dangerous" for you to imagine "the wrong people seeing the wrong information" then that might be an indication that - to put it crudely for the sake of making a point - "your team" currently holds the reigns of power and/or gate-keeps the information commons... So, consider what would happen if that flipped, and whoever you most fear held all the power and had final approval over what information can be shared and which social interactions and relationships were permitted. In that scenario, you'll be thankful that the system I'm describing _is already in place_, because by then it would be too late to build it.

2026-05-29 14:37:07 UTC

UX is more "Hospitality" than "Technology"

2026-05-29 03:48:18 UTC

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i did the opposite. made my display name refer to my npub's last characters lol

2026-05-29 01:58:34 UTC

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yes! i keep a few dollars on a Fold debit card in the back case of my phone so i can pretend i'm tapping sometimes 😆

2026-05-28 21:42:52 UTC

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#naddr1qq…2llq

2026-05-28 21:40:10 UTC

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pretty sure i'm somehow shadowbanned on primal. i was talking a lot of shit about them a few months back and noticed a big difference in my "EnGagEmeNt" afterwards...
i might just be paranoid though

2026-05-28 16:12:21 UTC

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Show me you caught their disease without saying so explicitly :P

2026-05-28 16:04:11 UTC

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This is quite a bit more reasonable or at least comprehensible than the other passage 😆

2026-05-28 16:03:02 UTC

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Honestly, every time i've ever seen a snippet or attempted to read any of Deleuze and/or Guattari, it just comes across as completely word-salad horseshit.
What am I missing?

2026-05-28 16:01:44 UTC

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I'm on the list. not committed to buying one, but if my needs and finances and timing align with their product decisions, I may end up there.
I really love the idea of opting for a completely bare-bones vehicle!

2026-05-28 13:36:10 UTC

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i like that you're eating it off a cutting board, too. very nice touch

2026-05-28 13:29:34 UTC

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how many people is "nobody"?

2026-05-28 12:36:27 UTC

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what's an example of a protocol or platform that meets your definition of "alive"?

2026-05-28 12:35:21 UTC

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looks like some of the big "public relays" may have removed or othrewise restricted these kinds. try the relay settings at the top:
wss://nos.lol still has catallax events on it.
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/3d9659fd112ed808e6a88509273fe2f3be28dd9d74a26f387c7b309526d5f44c.png
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/b6bc2e6bab4b2836a13ad4ae5917a16871757573db70922b4e5583dd833b20b2.png

2026-05-28 04:11:42 UTC

"nostr is dying" is a psyop. no idea where it started, but either way: don't repeat psyops.

2026-05-26 18:56:58 UTC

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V interesting.

2026-05-26 18:56:41 UTC

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> But if the appellate court is in on the conspiracy and the Supreme Court is in on the conspiracy, then is there really a secret book of laws in any meaningful sense or at all?
That's sort of their whole point, right? I don't actually know, I haven't looked into this that deeply - but I've got the sense that that's the hypothesis.
But of course, as you point out, if "it really goes that deep", then it's futile to try this tack. So, either way, it's futile - whether or not it's true 😆

2026-05-26 18:46:38 UTC

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it sounds a little like she did file certain things and they just threw them all out with "what you filed is all nonsense".
Of course, I don't know what she filed - and maybe it was all nonsense. But I guess what I'm asking is, if you assume the opposite of your prior statement, that there **is** some secret rulebook and they count on nobody being aware of it, wouldn't throwing out all the filings and in-court comments as "we don't know what those things are" be exactly the move to make to insure that the secret playbook stays secret and doesn't rise to the level of being noticeable by onlookers?
I realize there are some logical problems with that line of reasoning, but maybe you'll answer it anyway?

2026-05-26 18:34:09 UTC

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but he could have said, "Yes, I am a [lowercase] neutral judge, because we all are", without any error or risk, right? But to do so would be to sort of entertain her impugning?

2026-05-26 18:32:23 UTC

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If she asks a bunch of questions, and has filed a bunch of stuff, and they always say "we don't know what these things mean", what's her recourse? does she have to take those "confusing" things to a higher court, and are they compelled to hear it, or can they just tell her to get lost?
"you can only plead X or Y (not Z)". how is this different than "you can only plead X" (like, say, "guilty")? what's the difference between not accepting her "equity" plea and not accepting someone else's "not guilty" plea?

2026-05-26 18:27:21 UTC

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What's up with the judge constantly saying "I don't know what that means"? Feels like as much manoeuvring as she's doing. Does he really not know what these things mean... or is he kind of overriding and railroading what she's attempting?
Why won't he answer the "are you a neutral judge" question? He'd answer any other little clarifying questions, but certain ones he dodges. Do you think that's just normal human irritation, or is he being strategic with stuff like that?
only watched the first half so far...

2026-05-26 18:10:01 UTC

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YES

2026-05-26 18:01:25 UTC

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consider my previous statement to be a tangent and not about silent payments directly

2026-05-26 17:46:05 UTC

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i maintain that zero-maintenance, cryptogaphically-identified, peer-to-peer personal servers are the future. for this and 1 million other reasons

2026-05-26 11:35:35 UTC

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i still do TDD. and even **with** agentic coding. ai-driven code is better when you treat it like real software development (surprise!!)

2026-05-26 00:37:53 UTC

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self-hosted open source ones though!
same reason you might like arch or graphene but not windows or ios

2026-05-26 00:34:31 UTC

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looks like lockpicks..?

2026-05-26 00:33:47 UTC

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dude, yes

2026-05-25 19:49:33 UTC

Henry David Thoreau
"Stand outside the wall, and no harm can reach you. The danger is that you be walled in with it."
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/c4c9ce4a6b4f2fa9e7e333f30aa6aaf24ebfa852325ff9fb23f2bb92f2f45e39.jpg
Thoreau is the patron-saint of freedom tech and modern #stoicism

2026-05-25 12:31:36 UTC

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my god, this person is very silly

2026-05-25 12:23:27 UTC

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just build it on DCoSL or classic lists - you don't need permission from "big clients". implement something usable and well-documented, maybe make a small demo client that uses it. let that convince people.
ignore the haters - for whatever it is your project may be. and definitely don't seek their blessings

2026-05-25 11:49:40 UTC

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Matomo is very fully-featured (maybe more that you need) and sefl-hostable. i've been pretty happy with it in the past

2026-05-24 23:17:56 UTC

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wouldn't you agree that the total economic activity of nostr-native vendors who take bitcoin is roughly on par with a farmers' market in a small town?

2026-05-24 18:34:12 UTC

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have you done any surveys of net sales of all the known merchants on nostr? to put against your "hardly any people village farmers market"? nostr is more than zaps - you know this.

2026-05-24 17:30:39 UTC

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Yea, you're probably thinking of https://catallax.network - which is a "metaprotocol" on nostr specifically for gig work, bounties and open source crowd-funding.
I also work on #WoT, which is a necessary building block for the above and everything else we're talking about.
for what it's worth, the #catallax reference/demo client has had a small number of actually successful transactions. real work delivered, real payments, etc. Like you said, it's a scale and adoption issue. The same processes with 100, 1,000 or 1M more users would be an unignorable force in the market. As is, it's "just" an encouraging experiment.

2026-05-24 17:24:01 UTC

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I like the pine tar for the shower. something about it feels "extra ablative" lol.
but i also get the goat milk tallow for everything else, including shaving. it's luxurious for shaving, with a proper cup and brush. i drop a chopped-off chunk in the cup and leave it in there until it's gone and reload it.
to be clear, these are the only two i've tried, so i'm not sure about the others! i bet they're all excellent.
I also exclusively use @npub1zzm…w5wy deodorant.
there is literally no other brand in my bathroom for any products except toothpaste :)

2026-05-24 16:59:35 UTC

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look closer
#nevent1q…nyax

2026-05-24 16:59:03 UTC

#stoicism is a framework of sovereignty, whereas everywhere in the bible you're met with dependence upon an external god for your peace and strength.
#nevent1q…ac0v

2026-05-24 16:52:54 UTC

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they spend it on goods and experiences that feel like they equal its value. like all the producers around here who make high quality handmade goods.
i've never regret a sats purchase from @nprofile…dpt9 @nprofile…92yc @nprofile…d5tl @nprofile…ncnc @nprofile…4j95 @nprofile…06fh or any others.
for instance, every time i put on my leathermint belt or shave with soapminer, i actually can't believe the deal i got because they improve my quality of life so much more than anything else those same sats would buy me today at a shopping mall, no matter how much the sats/dollar ratio changes

2026-05-24 16:46:01 UTC

i'll let my readers be the judge 👀
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/6a8bf71d505477bbc24f5a165ea30422dbd5ddb0d3aecac866dee391caae63dc.jpg

2026-05-24 13:05:04 UTC

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my vote + talk to him

2026-05-24 13:01:24 UTC

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doesn't seem to take much with them

2026-05-23 21:52:56 UTC

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...are we looking at the same charts..?

2026-05-23 21:51:16 UTC

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we have it on nostr already. let the X people know.
just need some more apps, clients and extensions. and people archiving. i've been hoping to see a bounty marketplace emerge (maybe using https://catallax.network ) paying people to archive paywalled content. Just takes one archive to make it free for everyone

2026-05-23 19:56:15 UTC

As far as possible _without surrender_ be on good terms with all persons (mute judiciously).
- The Desiderada

2026-05-23 17:38:24 UTC

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what's the deal with that first scene...?

2026-05-23 17:37:24 UTC

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bitcoin is metal
#naddr1qv…4rg8
h/t @nprofile…dxpg

2026-05-23 15:24:56 UTC

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for highlights behind paywalls to be shareable, you need this layer:
#nevent1q…rqwx

2026-05-23 15:20:09 UTC

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even better if the original sentence can never be changed or taken offline:
#nevent1q…88xn

2026-05-23 15:18:47 UTC

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even better if the comments are on permanent web archives (see below)!
parasite the entire internet
#nevent1q…rqwx

2026-05-23 13:41:27 UTC

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i find all the things you just listed very aesthetically unappealing. but it's just personal preference

2026-05-23 13:23:46 UTC

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eastern anime is embarassing-looking, stupid and cheesy. it's not about intense vs pure.

2026-05-23 12:37:28 UTC

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of course there's a difference.

2026-05-23 12:34:55 UTC

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this guy comes off as really trustworthy..........
#nevent1q…f6v3

2026-05-23 12:21:38 UTC

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haven't you heard you're supposed to never sell or spend bitcoin?

2026-05-23 12:20:05 UTC

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this is incredible

2026-05-23 12:18:49 UTC

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even "secret funds". lots of fun options

2026-05-23 12:11:43 UTC

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#nevent1q…lw25

2026-05-23 12:10:56 UTC

Nostr Silent Funds Wallet (NSFW). for those transactions you'd rather nobody know about
(that is, all of them..)
#nevent1q…pd97

2026-05-23 02:02:56 UTC

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thanks!

2026-05-23 00:30:11 UTC

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curious to hear when you generate one

2026-05-23 00:29:51 UTC

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integrate https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr-web-archiver ! then extension users can create web archives on blossom, taking the Wayback Machine to our lovely decentralized open protocol here.
then they can replay the archives on https://replay.wayback.st/ or https://github.com/vcavallo/NarChives ... or you can embed a replay engine in ditto 😉😉😉

2026-05-22 21:37:37 UTC

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CANNOT, definitionally. not "won't live to see the end of". the goal of the game is to continue play forever - not to win, terminally.

2026-05-22 21:35:45 UTC

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have you ever gone through all this guy's stuff?
https://onestupidfuck.com/

2026-05-22 21:34:08 UTC

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why not a free pile?

2026-05-22 21:30:35 UTC

The joyfulness of our infinite game lies in learning to start something we cannot finish
#FiniteAndInfiniteGames

2026-05-22 21:00:54 UTC

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this was a picture from the internet. have no fear, i buy organic almonds and make my own butter 🤝

2026-05-22 18:48:11 UTC

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people with real problems likely don't have the "luxury" of idle anxiety.

2026-05-22 17:21:49 UTC

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i might call that planning and preparation, with awareness of the badness

2026-05-22 16:57:42 UTC

we each have a limited worry and stress budget. save it for the real stuff: actual bad things WILL happen to you and people you care about, so don't blow your budget on anxiety about what **could be**. because when you're faced with what **actually is** you won't be able to step up to meet the challenge with your best. an optional, self-inflicted wound added on top of the inevitable circumstances that you cannot control.

2026-05-22 15:30:45 UTC

https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/dc55ae18219ad6773311fcb79ae59aaa4f7e7370c8c0561000110719d4d51009.png

2026-05-22 15:27:01 UTC

you come across a new project called "gnostr" - what do you guess that it is, by name alone?

2026-05-22 14:55:45 UTC

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we cross-posted.
okay. your whole hypothesis rests on sloppy mistakes and poor design within an otherwise impressive amount of collusion, technical innovation and high-stakes. that's fine, but I find it completely unconvincing.
#nevent1q…p2gh

2026-05-22 14:54:10 UTC

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I'm saying you need to propose a convincing explanation for why they don't just make the mask 2 inches longer to avoid these shadows. they can make a perfect human mask, but they habitually make it just a bit too short and "get caught" by the internet sleuths over and over?
The burden of proof is on whoever is claiming this massive, blatant impersonation conspiracy. And if you can posit a secret, high-tech mask industry and massive collusion with all people on set at Fox, but that giant complex of theorizing can't also deal with this completely retarded oversight (not making the excellent mask go as far down as the shitty mask), it falls flat, in my opinion.

2026-05-22 14:49:58 UTC

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if you'd read my argument you'd understand that my whole point was that IF you start with the given that realistic masks exist, you have to then provide a convincing explanation for why they don't make them 2 inches longer to get rid of these "smoking gun shadows" that always serve as the basis for this conjecture.
I await your proposed explanations.

2026-05-22 14:32:27 UTC

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Explain this:
#nevent1q…0rln

2026-05-22 14:31:42 UTC

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I'll admit that's something to explain if you'll admit that the Fox news guy's face, lips, eyebrows, facial muscles etc. look nothing like the same on the british mask guy's face.
if you'll concede that, then the world we're in is: "good mask tech exists. the british video proves it. the Fox news guy's face is very much more life-like (essentially indistinguishable), so the available mask tech is many multiples better than what 'we're being shown'. Okay - so they _can_ pull off basically perfect faces, BUT when they're using the 100x better mask tech, they just get super careless around the neck... meanwhile, the crappy-looking british mask includes a simple bib down the front that easily solves the neck line issue."
This just strikes me as extremely unbelievable. Making the super advanced mask 100% unnoticeable by plebs on nostr would only require extending it a few inches longer - which is already the norm on much shittier masks in evidence - but they don't do it because....?

2026-05-22 14:06:35 UTC

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#nevent1q…4l6l

2026-05-22 14:04:54 UTC

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#nevent1q…28yf

2026-05-22 14:03:17 UTC

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#naddr1qq…ylx5

2026-05-22 14:01:01 UTC

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this was a very divergent branch off a project that flipped nostr upside-down: it put all the work clients currently do in a hypermedia server, and the client ui became a dumb presenter. no web sockets, little-to-no js (this meant it worked in tui browsers like lynx, including publishing!). i startedi that, but @nprofile…a2uz really made it shine on his fork: https://github.com/Letdown2491/nostr-hypermedia
to be clear, there were two projects at work here: the no-js nostr hypermedia thing described above, and the "ui in events" experiment in the parent note in this thread

2026-05-22 13:55:35 UTC

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i had screen recordings and stuff i'm trying to find, but here's something for now:
https://github.com/vcavallo/nostr-hypermedia/blob/hatebot/hateoas-js-readme.md
tl;dr: ui "specs" in events that get rendered as components in a simple but opinionated client-side mini-app

2026-05-22 13:44:57 UTC

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sounds awesome. i have a branch somewhere that built something somewhat similar - i'll find it for you in case it's helpful in some way

2026-05-22 12:44:03 UTC

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none of the above during that test

2026-05-22 12:43:40 UTC

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that is very obviously a mask. look at his mouth.

2026-05-22 04:00:40 UTC

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did someone say hypercard?

2026-05-22 01:45:13 UTC

at this point i can't get any NWC wallets working in #amethyst - they all just spin. and the nwc string from #cashu .me has an illegal character at index 221 (or so says amethyst)

2026-05-21 23:36:24 UTC

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downstream from socialized healthcare and other compulsory “public services".
you can't be allowed to splatter yourself across the pavement, because other people are coerced to pay for it

2026-05-21 23:06:58 UTC

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you've never seen how studio lights work

2026-05-21 19:37:50 UTC

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gotcha - the server is the part i was assuming out of my picture. it's a nicpicky detail, so i won't belabor it - but there is a small difference in accountability and liability (as a developer and maintainer) if you're running a server that explicitly provides this service to users of your app, vs distributing client-side code the users do whatever they want with.
anonymously provide some html and js, on the one hand. vs running a server that explicitly facilitates money transfer for unknown users on the other.
like i said though, that's a tangent to the ux point and i didn't know about the path you described wrt npub.cash auto-receive and smushing it into a client application. thanks for addressing that