schmijos
Josua Schmid

Engineering software, brewing beer

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2024-09-11 20:05:31

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I don’t trust it but still use it 🤷

2024-08-24 09:39:06

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Looks better in the glass now. https://video.nostr.build/eaf5e9830008a1087a61fbad72f51237dfce05c72bafad06ea8d4a10a48a47a1.mp4

2024-08-24 09:34:34

Today is brewing day at #Brauzeugen’s.
This means also drinking.
But this Pils here is a bit foamy, so it’s important to remember:
Foam always becomes beer again. https://image.nostr.build/ce3d9c9fb0e1f6c7e5b96ad3fd700651e55e534dd504d1746139c099072b4817.jpg

2024-08-21 05:49:34

I’m fascinated by commuter efficiency optimising. Entering the train at the right spot so that when changing trains you have the shortest way to the shop. In the shop selecting what you want fast, self-checkout lane, and hopping onto the next train.

2024-08-20 20:43:51

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And yet we cling to our identities to produce ourselves.

2024-08-14 16:33:01

Today I learned that this doesn’t raise in Ruby: a = { b: a }
What the heck, why?

2024-08-10 07:55:04

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Same experience

2024-08-07 20:22:13

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Yes. And the main point would be that one npub has to commit for a locality. Moving could be possible, but would have opportunity costs attached: you loose access to the old locality. And moving too often could be considered spammy.
This could be a metric for a public reach equilibrium. An elastic system.
Certainly always overridable by the clients (e.g. by fellowship).

2024-08-07 10:45:22

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Tags are discrete and not numeric. Location and loudness would be aggregatable, calculatable, interpolatabe.

2024-08-07 05:56:33

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My point wouldn’t be about blocking. It’s more about a client tuning in to the noise and give “far away” notes less priority. Like in real life where you need to go somewhere to hear a person speak.
The scaling factors of a note could be: distance and noise (real people get soar throats and cannot scream the whole day, this helps against spam) overridable by the listener.

2024-08-06 20:29:53

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Not so wrong if the platforms are local and controlled by the ones living around them.
But you still need the foundation of protocols like human dignity and respect.
With online platforms compared to offline the problem (and advantage) is that they are not local.
What do you think of introducing some artificial locality into nostr? We could reduce the spam problem by some proximity measure like attaching a “place” to an npub. Screaming to the other side of the world could be considered spammy if you didn’t move your npub first.

2024-08-02 15:36:25

Brewing in #Sulgen today. Inspecting the competition. https://image.nostr.build/e287605fae163f0a842c117a29bc344983a09d6d473960ba6e49af8b114fc732.jpg

2024-07-28 07:35:52

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That’s not a very feudalist viewpoint.

2024-07-27 07:40:21

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Nespresso?

2024-07-25 06:28:38

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No worries, I understood you the first time. Irony is very difficult in text 😬

2024-07-25 06:27:20

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That‘s what I‘m here for. Dropping random thought and then run away.

2024-07-25 06:14:14

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It‘s nice to see that there are actual people behind nostr 🥹

2024-07-25 06:13:01

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No idea 🤷‍♂️

2024-07-25 05:39:10

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I like Gitlab. Self-hosted, open source and fully remote. I have a contact if you‘d like to connect with someone. Your nostr git work could help you apply there. Your efforts may complement Gitlab in an interesting way.

2024-07-24 21:58:53

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I’d say it’s already there.
Have a look at the Two Minute Papers YouTube channel where a lightning specialist talks about AI:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLujxSBD-JXgk1hb8lyu6sTYsLL39r_3bG&feature=shared

2024-07-24 21:47:08

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You mean the zap gun, right?

2024-07-24 21:45:01

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I think Gitlab would like you. Apply there.

2024-07-24 21:43:11

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Hoe is it all about porn today?

2024-07-24 07:13:19

Ruby on Rails was publicly released 20 years ago:
https://blade.ruby-lang.org/ruby-talk/107370
Happy Brithday! 🎉

2024-07-22 10:44:40

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Also: they cover no crypto aspects of NIP-01 yet. Signature checks are important.

2024-07-22 10:42:33

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I feel honored that you mention my specs 🥰.
One thing to mention: I‘m not used to writing Gherkin specs. Structuring and flight-level could be dramatically improved probably.

2024-07-20 20:06:35

About finding my muse: alcohol or exercise?

2024-07-20 08:14:26

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I agree. But it‘s important to consider that this may not be a problem of software per se. GNU tools or iPhone apps are isolated solutions to very specific use cases. I think the web 2.0 platforms broke this. It‘s an interface design problem, and not generally software.
So I‘m glad you‘re working on the nostr interface side of things. Just please take very special care of NIP-01. It‘s our precious, even though many may deem it trivial. It‘s incredibly well thought through. It‘s not easy to think something so simple. And that‘s easy to forget.

2024-07-20 06:34:33

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Humans cannot calculate any non-gaussian risks. We‘re bad intuitive statistitians. Additionally software is a very young engineering discipline. More regulation will come. Imagine how the first steam engines all blew up.

2024-07-20 06:30:55

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But the hierarchy is inverse. Small truths rely on the bigger and more fundamental truth.

2024-07-18 22:17:41

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And I feel cheated when filling out a lot of small wizard steps just to find in the last step that they want some information from me I don‘t want to share.

2024-07-18 21:08:04

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Did you ever look at Elixir?

2024-07-18 21:04:22

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Hm… Discord… need nostr voice and video…

2024-07-18 20:59:12

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What IDE are you using otherwise?

2024-07-18 06:35:51

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I you want, you can also make them your public docs. But that‘s tricky. See an example here: https://rspec.info/features/3-13/rspec-core/subject/one-liner-syntax/

2024-07-17 21:38:51

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The tests vs spec discussion might be interesting then.

2024-07-17 20:37:33

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Tests first, please! @npub19mu…jnft

2024-07-16 19:34:35

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1. What was this again? I remember that I didn’t like a certain aspect about it.
2. How do you search for it now and find it?

2024-07-16 18:53:48

Why are we all so concerned with securing our one-and-only nsec? Wouldn’t it be healthier for nostr if we could easily burn them and migrate to the next one?
Key migration should be as easily possible as: “Hey, I’m Joe, Fred lost his phone, this is his new number.”
Everyone can ask themselves then: do I trust Joe.
How to set this up technically may be challenging assuming there’s no hard concept of absolute time in nostr which allows for the statement “key burned after”. But intuitively I feel there must be a pragmatic middle path with relative time as in “signed and referenced by”. We could make a DAG putting notes into timely relation to each other and drop out cheaters. A bit like proof-of-stake with social media:
@npub1m4n…c2jl could for example make a statement now “schmijos seems legit and every interaction with him so far seems legit”. Others could judge this and say: ok, there this side of the DAG which seems non-meddled-with. A bit like a continuous key-signing party which doesn’t bring good security, but some security. This is a concept of time. And as soon as @npub1m4n…c2jl detects weird interactions, she makes a statement: “nah, doesn’t seem right, he’s been hacked”. It would be no different than me writing to a friend on facebook: “hey your account makes weird things, I consider it has been hacked”
I’m aware this idea is neither very cypherpunk nor Bitcoiner-proof but on nostr we could maybe live with a very laax term of time? We’re still free to assume the worst anytime and can require perfect security when needed. But if I want to call Fred I’m probably grateful that Joe told me where to reach him.

2024-07-15 20:16:13

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Shouldn’t any signal (like/ref/zap) trigger a broadcast as well?

2024-07-15 19:59:14

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I have a broadcast button. What does it do? I’m afraid to press it.

2024-07-15 16:34:56

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There has been no attention on the notecrumb project since January 2024.
Is there a NIP which would allow relays to expose notes via HTTP/HTML? This would give you the alternatives.

2024-07-15 14:49:53

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Hate is probably not the right emotion 🙂. He’s mostly very nice.

2024-07-15 14:41:06

njump.me became beautiful. @npub18m7…q955 why not share via njump?

2024-07-15 12:01:07

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Does “from scratch” include bech and elliptic curve crypto? And websockets? Or just protocol specifics?

2024-07-15 10:30:56

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How do you mean “it requires other NIPs to work”? My suggestions? Or NIP-01?

2024-07-15 10:07:26

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With against: I mean against that maintenance surpasses initial development. Software can be feature-complete. We’re just not used to that anymore.

2024-07-15 10:06:03

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I’m not so sure. At least once.com is betting against this. You pay once. You get the source. You get updates as long as they are able to sell it once. Let’s see how sustainable this is.

2024-07-15 08:58:12

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I’m at least a bit opposed to this. Open source is a gift. I’m much on DHH’s side of viewpoint: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-open-source-gift-exchange-2171e0f0

2024-07-15 08:53:39

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I feel we need better and simpler promises on the side of NIP-01.
- Distribution: The initially proposed “canonical relay” was dropped. We decided contra blastr and pro client relay. That increases client complexity and makes things unpredictable. Less people dare to implement their own client.
- Archiving: Will I be able to restore my notes from only the relays? I probably should run my own. Probably my client should archive them locally as well (I don’t think/see that Damus does this).
- Security: I’m hesitant to enter my nsec anywhere. The current approaches (nsecbunker) are conceptually too complex. I’d prefer if NIP-01 contained a simple key migration path (e.g. a canary approach paired with a relatively timed heartbeat).
The main strength of nostr is the simplicity of its design. Let’s focus on @npub1gcx…nj5z ‘s NIP-01 rewrite for example. Otherwise we’re going to build the Tower of Babel with the other stuff.

2024-07-13 07:15:00

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Das Gesamt-Vermögen beizuziehen halte ich für irreführend. Der Median über Zeit wäre spannender. Oder Einkommen-/Vermögensverhältnisse, wie es Piketty macht. Laut ihm nähern wir uns den Zuständen der Belle Époque.

2024-07-11 17:09:42

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Bonus systems optimization

2024-07-11 06:07:15

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One supporting example for your viewpoint:
We collect KPI data for the Swiss staff leasing market to benchmark them. The only good datapoint to determine the index volume is the worked hours. Money related numbers in the other hand subject to bookkeeping tricks and therefore unreliable.

2024-07-11 06:00:32

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But this should be priced-in.

2024-07-10 15:04:04

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This is a bit far stretched in my eyes. There’s a very thin line between the will to invest and greed on one side and between accepting help and digging yourself a hole. Nothing of this has to do with Bitcoin.

2024-07-09 19:55:11

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I think I’d pay 1000 sats per picture once when I upload it.
- I’d expect that you make it available with best-effort throughput, but eventually.
- I’d expect that you keep it available for as long as I live.

2024-07-08 14:59:51

Could we check for DNA in chewing gum remains and cross-reference them for litter-profiling? https://image.nostr.build/e4a1ced10ba38d63aff40303807b9f22c5dce00743d47d178218619fe4ee3ced.jpg

2024-07-06 08:37:02

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Beer brewers

2024-07-01 20:39:31

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Today even my BIOS has healthchecks, USB support and animations. And I didn‘t want this!

2024-07-01 20:37:41

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Oh man, how fast did my Windows 95 boot and start apps!

2024-07-01 20:27:38

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Hm… why did it switch to asking?

2024-06-30 14:59:07

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You do events? Organize a nostr meetup and receive more ideas there.

2024-06-30 07:23:58

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See you in the finals I guess 😁

2024-06-30 07:11:01

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Some read up about CPU architecture may bring your thoughts further:
Harvard vs Von Neumann

2024-06-28 05:59:25

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And a very difficult one. Visibility of a dev is an antipattern.
This is what I try to do when choosing who we support with donations:
- look at library usage in our projects
- make a table of GitHub stars vs downloads on Rubygems
- donate to GitHub developers with few stars but heavy usage
There are other and unrelated selection criteria as well. For example we donate to the Web Archive and Tor because we think them to be very important infrastructure projects.

2024-06-25 16:04:36

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Not how I intended but true. Damn, I should learn to be more specific. Now honestly, would you count home as a geolocation?

2024-06-25 13:34:44

I pay a bounty of 42’000 sats if you find my geolocation bounded by a 10m radius. https://image.nostr.build/e741d169a0608505667e4c071cd7416d2a5a6ff784cf42304bd7d126ed2dcecc.jpg

2024-06-20 18:06:24

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Ah, I now the concept. But not in these words. It becomes especially interesting when it‘s not only about gain but also about loss.

2024-06-20 11:03:16

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I never heard of it before.

2024-06-16 19:07:26

My running tour in #RapperswilJona has some sweet spots. https://image.nostr.build/b58c3a209edf127ea0ce907000184d43dd7db2ade3d066e20d9dbeac0d4821d7.jpg

2024-06-16 19:05:45

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Thank you very much! These all seem very trotten paths now. Are the festivals very touristic?

2024-06-15 05:46:58

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I put them into the mash for a nice stout.

2024-06-14 23:31:59

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It a third of a day.

2024-06-14 23:03:57

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Ok, then it‘s ethically ok to stack nsecs. I‘d be worried otherwise 😁

2024-06-14 22:52:45

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Ah, now I finally get GitCitadel. Was totally missing this context and complained about the bazaar contradiction 🤦‍♂️

2024-06-14 22:46:53

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Aren‘t you supervising a nostr client or so?

2024-06-14 22:46:19

We spent a promille of our gross income for the alumni event today. How could you not*

2024-06-14 22:43:29

@npub14d6…7wra I‘d like to go for a weeklong farm house ale brewery walk in Voss next year. Or somewhere else. Participating in brewing day. Do you know someone?

2024-06-14 22:39:28

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I don‘t like this at a first glance.
Two repellants:
- https://get.nirvati.org doesn‘t show me the shell script. Auditability of the install routine is not given easily.
- the webpages are full of marketing boxes. The family? Fine, I click it. Oh, it‘s just more products? Ah let me scroll the main page… oh, it‘s just endless marketing claims.
And since this comes from @npub1f6u…zcka : maybe it‘s just art and I was fooled by it? Could be.

2024-06-14 22:28:53

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and also the ale

2024-06-14 22:28:22

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It also means they didnt‘t pay for lunch because Bitcoin is playmoney.

2024-06-14 06:33:47

We invite our former employees to a nice dinner each year: the alumni event.
Today is such a day.
Looking forward to see faces from the past!

2024-06-12 17:32:10

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At least we can act accordingly.

2024-06-12 05:57:08

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I‘m also quite happy with kagi. Using it since 3 months.

2024-06-11 20:42:34

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Wow, thanks for sharing! The excourse about counters is phenomenal.

2024-06-11 19:28:30

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Beautiful. One critique: 0% only works if time is constantly running with the default being no new content being published right now.

2024-06-11 19:23:41

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Where‘s this image from?

2024-06-11 06:34:25

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What‘s a „similar“ note? We only have measures which take the training corpus of LLMs into account. You can probably not measure breaking the bubble. Or I can not think how.

2024-06-11 06:25:32

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I like the idea. How to realize? What‘s 100%? Coverage by GPT4? Comparison to all tag clouds over all of nostr?

2024-06-11 05:57:15

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I think Coax T-connectors are besutiful

2024-06-11 05:54:29

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Yes, that‘s low entropy, right?

2024-06-10 16:33:26

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So I‘d say they reduce entropy in your feed in similar ways devs do (or more) because they aim for your money-spending brain.

2024-06-10 09:25:27

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Are influencers not just about product placement? Or do you understand something different under the term influencer?

2024-06-09 09:21:50

Simulation theory: I dicovered an information theory paradoxon. Perfect entropy makes it impossible to figure out how the simulation works from the inside because there‘s no space for leaky abstractions. „Impurities“ (too much order or too much chaos) on the other hand leave space for interpretation about the simulation environment. If leaky abstractions give you information about the environment, don‘t they also increase entropy in the simulation?
The paradoxon is: less entropy in the world leads to a more interesting universe because there is more simulation potential. So once again it matters from where you measure.

2024-06-09 06:59:22

I‘m inviting to #Zurich for the 20 years anniversary of #Ruby on Rails: https://www.meetup.com/rubyonrails-ch/events/301480681/

2024-06-08 18:33:00

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I guess it‘s this one then?
httpx://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-fiatjaf-nostr-donation-2024-6
I find it interesting. In my head this read by monotone news presentrix. Often emphasising the name pairs so that they stick for the internet. You really can feel how facts are born into existence, being pressed out in waves, although not in pain.

2024-06-07 06:52:16

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What happened?

2024-06-06 05:26:53

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We care because we find civilization useful. Socialists have difficulties to differ between leveling the balances and tearing down civilization.

2024-06-04 07:54:45

The gray in #Rapperswil is becoming more blue by the minute. https://image.nostr.build/b164dcf40fb1315be5f94f0e4b4e511bda835930bf7c08acb107dd977ac35ea0.jpg

2024-06-03 21:25:32

Is there an animal which has a wrong fur direction?