ibz

Shadowy super coder. Into art and rural living. I seek beauty and freedom. Statism is a crime against humanity. Citadel builder since before the meme.

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2025-11-02 18:45:08 UTC

Work to pay taxes to support the state in taxing you even more.
OR
Work to weaken the state.
The choice is yours.

2025-10-24 09:45:23 UTC

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TIL. Reminds me of communist Romania when every typewriter was registered with the state authorities and each had a slight difference in the way certain characters looked or were positioned to make it uniquely identifiable.

2025-10-23 08:06:40 UTC

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Local first! Finally I am optimistic about the future as well. Long live local databases, the path to true decentralization!

2025-09-30 11:23:25 UTC

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Corollary: corruption is what makes humanity still possible.

2025-08-06 19:00:40 UTC

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No idea, I just haven't seen it work, although many have tried building such "communities". I think the most one can hope and plan for is their own family. Anyone else joining is great, but not something you can count on. Of course if it does get some momentum, more will definitely join. But before that it's hard to plan and count on anyone. It's easy to throw some money into such a thing, because it sounds so awesome, but much harder to stay focused long term, live there, and dedicate energy, which is what is actually more important than the initial purchase. Priorities change a lot for everybody.

2025-08-06 06:31:24 UTC

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Sounds like top-down planning which will always fail. You can't start a community by deciding to "start a community". Either it happens naturally or it doesn't.

2025-07-28 20:24:45 UTC

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Good answer. Lots to think about.
I was certainly not thinking about something private, although privacy can easily be achieved if the client just encrypts the file before uploading it and decrypts it on download, no? The blobs could then spread and they would still be encrypted...
Some form of tagging would definitely be useful - which could also be used to build a tree-like structure on the client (to emulate folders). Could the server just return a json containing tags on `HEAD` or `GET "hash/tags"` or something?

2025-07-28 14:51:03 UTC

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Great! Thanks for at least confirming that what I was looking for does not actually exist. I was absolutely sure it must exist, because it seems like the killer app for Blossom, really! And one of the must have apps built on Blossom...
Hope somebody builds this. It could of course be just a separate feature in a regular Nostr client, but it feels like a simple separate app would make more sense.

2025-07-28 10:13:39 UTC

Is there such a thing as an Android Blossom client? If not, why not? Wouldn't that essentially be my own cloud (assuming I run my Blossom server)?
I know many Nostr clients upload to Blossom, but what I am looking for is different: not a client that I use to post notes, but one that I use to manage my files...

2025-06-24 14:47:05 UTC

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I will... Although my app has just GitHub and no home page yet...

2025-06-23 15:56:12 UTC

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Well, most programmers really do write code like that anyway...

2025-05-23 17:13:17 UTC

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Bitcoin is what fixes the unit. That's the whole point.

2025-03-20 00:35:45 UTC

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A blosscast?

2025-02-22 22:06:04 UTC

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Anything Jabra has been great!

2025-02-11 19:31:24 UTC

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I am stacking coins from all over the world. I probably have way too many, idk, like 20kg? Can't stop stacking though!

2025-02-11 07:20:10 UTC

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Djarum is nice, but try to get some real kretek.

2025-02-05 22:43:39 UTC

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Actually Nostr was created for NIP-15 not NIP-15 for Nostr, the way I have read it in the history books.

2025-01-11 13:24:48 UTC

What is *the* NIP-23 (long form) client these days?
Habla seems dead. Prophet is dead. Blogstack... is it still a thing?
Nobody else innovating in this field?

2025-01-08 07:32:22 UTC

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Lol, I still can't wrap my head around how zaps work. Give me another year...

2025-01-07 18:21:33 UTC

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Remember NIP-69, @npub1a3u…mdj6 ?

2025-01-07 15:25:45 UTC

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Whenever it feels like it's all crashing in flames, just zoom out.

2025-01-07 15:22:43 UTC

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Up from 95 a week ago. IDK...

2025-01-07 15:21:22 UTC

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GM, market coordinators!

2025-01-07 15:20:50 UTC

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Dipping? Turn your phone around.

2025-01-06 11:13:57 UTC

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Interesting points. I'll follow you guys closely, since I am curious where this is all going. And I'll try to order some coffee too!

2025-01-06 10:13:38 UTC

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I've read your article but I don't understand what the issue is (except the ugly JSON DMs) or why you need a bot to do anything. Have a look at some existing NIP-15 implementations. They work as intended with no manual intervention from the seller. Your proposal for merchant delegation is nice BTW.

2024-11-03 11:15:16 UTC

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If you run your server, you already have your archive. That's a huge step that most people don't do.

2024-10-17 10:23:29 UTC

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1st gen Nostr apps: use relays to store data.
2nd gen Nostr apps: use a database such as Postgres to store data.
#note1kee…ck6m

2024-10-17 10:09:16 UTC

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I see Ditto as making most sense if you self-host a community relay, rather than using it as a general purpose relay.
I would not name 3 features because it is not that it has some *extra* features. It is just fundamentally something else.

2024-10-16 22:13:40 UTC

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So account switchers are better. Nostr is still early and has plenty of catch up to do.
FB and IG have the best UX. It couldn't be simpler than that.
Also: there is a reason why people want different accounts. They don't want the multiple accounts "merged" into one. One switch to move the whole context to another account.

2024-10-16 21:38:05 UTC

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Seeds are the new weeds...

2024-10-16 21:24:07 UTC

USD = politics
Gold = physics
BTC = mathematics

2024-10-16 20:43:25 UTC

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Ditto seems to be the way to do communities on Nostr... @npub108p…yev6

2024-10-14 21:41:31 UTC

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Agree on NIP-98, actually. So I do get your point now - finally. But then - NIP-98 does not compete with Blossom, only NIP-96 is. Of course it is a bummer that Blossom chose to *not* use NIP-98 for authentication.

2024-10-14 11:03:57 UTC

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I think you mean NIP-96. I know you have a strong opinion on this, but Blossom just seems to be winning. Would be interesting if you talked about NIP-96 next time you joined some podcast. Or if you wrote a post explaining why you think it is better. I'm surely not the only one comparing the two.

2024-09-05 13:59:41 UTC

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I'm not a paleo weirdo, but deodorant? Why would you use that? It's as useless as sunscreen.

2024-08-28 18:46:32 UTC

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What you are describing is a P2P network, which is what nostr tries *not* to be.

2024-08-28 18:43:44 UTC

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I am working on that.

2024-08-28 12:05:03 UTC

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Nip-98 over Blossom you say?

2024-08-27 12:22:31 UTC

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"web3" without a VM and a token.

2024-08-26 13:59:05 UTC

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They have some shitcoin reward indeed, I always just ignored that.

2024-08-26 10:54:36 UTC

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I used it for a couple of years. It's what you describe: top up BTC and spend fiat. Another one I used is Crypto.com, also good, but slightly different: you top up the card with fiat converted from BTC you have in your account.

2024-08-26 06:20:23 UTC

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Wirex?

2024-08-22 04:45:45 UTC

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NOthing Stops this TRain?

2024-08-12 12:59:46 UTC

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Is Primal using relays to *read* data? I thought it is just *writing* to relays and using their caching service to read. I might be wrong though.

2024-08-06 05:56:03 UTC

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Building is much more expensive than buying.

2024-07-31 07:14:08 UTC

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Speaking of spam accounts...

2024-07-30 11:59:07 UTC

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The grumpy hornets.

2024-07-27 19:26:45 UTC

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Bitcoin doesn't need politicians. This is disgusting.

2024-07-24 06:13:16 UTC

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I feel you, brother! Sometimes I am so disappointed by bitcoiners and by the direction we are going that I just want to forget it all and do something completely unrelated. But then again, discovering Bitcoin is what made me excited about technology again, after years of believing it is all useless...

2024-07-23 14:03:01 UTC

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Even Nostr is still widely misunderstood. People assume you can build stuff "on Nostr" as you would build a "dapp" (whatever that means) "on Ethereum".
Platforms - of which Ethereum and the like are the culmination - are a mind virus that skews your whole world view.
A "dapp" cannot logically be built "on a platform". It has to be a stand-alone app that you can self-host and which *uses* open protocols, such as Bitcoin and Nostr to interact with other apps.
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2024-07-23 11:20:48 UTC

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Nostr and REST can cohabit peacefully. There is no reason to be a Nostr maximalist. See Blossom, for example. It works *together with* Nostr rather than trying to mutate Nostr into what it is not.

2024-07-23 11:17:33 UTC

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We need ETFs and Trump!

2024-05-14 20:11:30 UTC

NIP-96 is dead. Long live Blossom.

2024-02-24 21:15:14 UTC

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The difference is in the way most people build nostr apps.
Most nostr apps use the nostr relays both for data storage and as actual relays (to relay data between the entities storing the data and the client apps).
In Bluesky there is a clear distinction between relays and PDSes, both of which you can self-host, which makes the model much easier to understand, which in my opinion is a huge plus.

2023-11-27 22:10:13 UTC

Why are they called "progressives" when they are in fact "resetists"?
How is a reset a form of progress?

2023-11-01 08:30:26 UTC

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Yeah we tried to avoid touching the private key. This is the best we came up with... 6 months ago or so.
Since then we pretty much rewrote the whole thing, including the log in. The new version just asks your extension to sign an event, but the event never gets sent to relays.
Coming very soon.

2023-11-01 08:25:22 UTC

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The new version, with improved Nostr log in, is not live yet. Coming in 2 weeks. Final bug fixes and testing underway. What you tried is a very old version of our Nostr log in which worked by sending you a DM. We use the extension to log in now.

2023-03-29 07:06:12 UTC

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Hey, I also claimed this by DM-ing you, but no reply.

2023-02-14 18:40:07 UTC

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Oh, no!

2023-02-13 09:44:09 UTC

Twitter was kinda boring lately anyway.