CarlosAutonomous
Carlito

https://github.com/BrightonBTC

#Bitcoin freak. Anarchist without adjectives. Freedom maximalist.

Bitcoin events in Brighton UK

Public Key

npub1qqqqqqqut3z3jeuxu70c85slaqq4f87unr3vymukmnhsdzjahntsfmctgs

NIP-05 Address

CarlosAutonomous@rebelweb.co.uk

NIP-57 Address

topliquor87@walletofsatoshi.com

Profile Code

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2024-09-02 18:05:29

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LOL. I don't particularly have a horse in this race by the way, but I do find it amusing to see people making claims that they are defending reality when the apparent reality to me seems to suggest they are in complete denial of it. Watching people twist themselves into prezels to try and validate their beliefs is also pretty amusing.
I'd be happy to look at any evidence that chemicals in the water are responsible in some way but it honestly sounds like something you just pulled out your ass because it sounded like something that would support your opinions. I'm aware there's hightened levels of estrogen in some water supplies that could cause some variation but that doesn't do anything to explain why there's been variation stretching back into ancient history, and across localities and cultures.
Intersex people exist. 1-2% of the current global population in fact, and again there's good evidence to suggest they have existed throughout our history. Sex is simply not binary, it may trend towards 2 norms, but deviation from the norms is also "normal".
Genetic diversity is literally the spice of life, we wouldn't have evolved beyond the most basic of lifeforms otherwise!
You are claiming that you are defending reality in one breath, and in the next claiming that reality apparently has errors in it. Reality doesn't need defending, it is simply what is. The supposed reality you defend is simply in your head alongside that supposed standard template of a human being.
Likewise, trans people exist. That's just a fact. And in quite large numbers I'll add. Why have you taken it upon yourself to decide what is right for them, that they are defective, or that you know how they should go about handling their identity issues (assuming it's currently presenting as an issue for them).
My only real point/suggestion here is to perhaps spend less time concerning yourself with what others are up to, and just like get on with your own life and shit! (*disclaimer: I don't know you, and don't want to draw too many assumptions, maybe you don't spend that much time thinking about this stuff at all, I just notice that a lot of people do).
It doesn't seem like it can be very fulfilling to be spending a lot of your life concerned with the way others choose to live, and the kind of satisfaction gained from "othering" isn't going to satisfy for very long or in any meaningful way IMO.
Anyway, again, I don't really have a horse in this race. Just my 2 sats.

2024-08-31 09:12:46

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Where do the small, but not insignificant, percentage of people that are *naturally born as intersex fit into this framing of "binary" "reality"?

2024-08-29 14:31:47

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Yeah, government organisations just generally seem to be the worst offenders on this kind of stuff! And the rest is mostly on behalf of the government anyway.

2024-08-29 14:09:42

Amount of time it takes to...
> Subscribe to our service: 3 clicks.
> Get support for our service: 25 mins wrestling with our highly regarded chat bot + 3 hours on hold waiting for one of our highly regarded support staff who probably can't help anyway.
> Cancel your subscription: longer than the amount of time we think you'll realistically put in to it.

2024-08-29 14:05:05

"Our organisation believes strongly in protecting its customers from fraud, for this reason we require certain information from you. Please upload your entire personal and financial history to our super safe (honest guv) server on which it will be stored for the rest of eternity."
* not even a hint of irony detected.

2024-08-28 19:39:58

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Hang on, have you been looking inside my brain?
That fire scene is mental, I kinda wish it was actually based on a pic of me to be honest (it's Carlito Brigante fro Carlito's Way). Nice work!

2024-08-12 14:20:17

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I decided to declare peace with myself also ;)

2024-08-12 13:07:33

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I didn't give any notice to anyone! 😆
I'd been thinking about it for ages but in a moment of disgust at both the content of my feed, and myself for still being on there, I though sod this and immediately went and hit the nuke button!
It's not like many people care much what I have to say anyway, and I'm not someone who cares about follower counts. Just glad to have separated myself from that shit show!

2024-08-12 11:41:07

Pura Vida!
Slightly embarrassed to say I'd slipped back into doomscrolling on the cesspit that is now called X!
Feels good to have now totally nuked my account. Fuck that shit! I realised that even if there's a broader range of topics over there rn that I can't in good conscience continue to support Elon's freedom of speech larp. Besides, we need real solutions, and even if I found my views more in alignment with his, we're never going to get censorship resistant social media through a centralised corporate entity like that. It's just not gonna happen.
Nostriches are the future! This place continues to build and grow, while that hellhole over there seems to be eating itself from the inside. I choose life!
Will probably continue to be mostly a lurker tbh, but won't be splitting my lurking hours between here and there anymore.
All those of you that are making this thing happen fucking rock. LFG!

2024-08-03 13:52:26

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You're not understanding what I'm saying at all. Cheese and moon are conceptual frameworks we build in our minds to navigate the world and communicate with other people. They are not objective reality. Of course someone can decide to build a conceptual framework that is completely out of accordance with what everyone else is agreeing on, like the moon is made of cheese, but it's not going to help them much socially and it obviously doesn't make the thing that everyone else is calling moon become the thing that everyone else is calling cheese.
We form social concensus around how we label different patterns that we observe with our minds and through our sense organs and society is currently having a problem reaching concensus on how we classify gender, some saying it's purely biological, others saying it's more complex than that. Neither framework for viewing the world is objectively true because they are just frameworks and it's our job as humans to decide which one fits best. I choose the one that grants the most personal autonomy for individuals.

2024-08-03 10:48:19

This weekend my home town is host to one of the largest 🏳️‍🌈 Pride events in the world, people flock here to celebrate the diversity and inclusion we are blessed with in our local communities. Brighton has it's problems but I fucking love living in a place where freedom of expression is not only tollerated but celebrated. It's probably the friendliest place I've had the pleasure to live. Certainly in the UK.
Being home to one of the largest LGBTQ communities here it's really not an unnusual experience for me to see trans men and women on the street, or to see gay and lesbian couples holding hands or embracing. It's a normal part of life. "Normal" people doing normal things, going about their lives, and not bothering me in any way while they do it.
I don't come on socials much but increasingly when I do my feeds are littered with hate towards trans people - it's unnatural, they want to mutilate your children, corrupt your minds, burn civilisation and all that is good to the ground. Please!
It's like me feed is constantly telling me that my neighbours are my enemies. I refuse to accept that. I don't really care all that much to go in to the science or philosophy of what is and isn't a man or a woman because while they might be interesting topics it's always more important to me to accept people as unique individuals and to interface with them as such.
People are interesting and diversity is the spice of life. All I can really wish for others is that they find the freedom and strength to fully express their own uniqueness. 💜

2024-08-03 09:34:49

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No, I'm not saying we can just change ultimate reality with our minds and suddenly turn the moon to cheese or anything like that! I'm saying that truth is illusive because we rely on interpretation and models and that people fixed in their view of what it is are suspect. Reality is not to be found in the opinions of men and I don't believe there's any rules passed down from on high that say people mustn't alter their bodies or appearance to suit their identities.
If anything it's people that say it is "unnatural" or wrong to live out such desires that are in denial of reality because reality is showing us over and again that it's not particularly unusual for humans to want to do so.
But yes, it's all certainly become very politicised and I won't deny that there are difficult social issues around things like trans in sports, which public toilets trans people should use, or what advice should be given to youngsters with dysphoria, that I don't have the answers for. What I don't think is useful is othering trans people, or labelling them as an abonimation to nature, or imagining they can just magically stop being the way the are because a bunch of ultra conservatives object to their existence.
Trans people exist, that's just a fact. If you object to that you are not reinforcing reality you are fighting a losing battle against it.

2024-08-03 01:48:46

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Not only identity issues, all mental constructs are essentially delusions. Whatever ultimate truth or reality is we don't see it because the tools we use to interpret reality by their very nature dissect and filter it through all kinds of complex processes, most of which are themselves beyond our own cognition. Using terms like man or woman are simply labels, people may use them to point to very specific biological patterns within this shared delusion as markers to help them communicate but they are still only labels and don't really have anything to do with what is ultimately true or natural or right. That's all just stuff we make up in our heads. And how we love to make stuff up. If there's one thing humans will always do it's try new things, explore new avenues, and break the rules. Gender reassignment is hardly amongst the most extreme of these. Also in terms of messing with our genes and biology we may well see way crazier things than gender reassignment within our lifetimes! The way some people freak out about trans folk I'm not sure how they'll cope with what's coming!
What we mostly call reality is at best a blurred reflection of the real thing on the scratched and torn surfaces of our minds.
For that reason I'm always very suspicious of people that are very certain about what reality is because they're generally more lost in their delusion than the rest of us and often have a desire to impose that view on to the rest of the world.
As a last note, saying that terms are just labels that we make up is not to say that there's not something biologically distinct that we can point to and say "male" or "female", that can be a useful delusion, or mental model, to participate in for sure.

2024-08-03 00:08:43

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If somebody came to me asking for advice on their gender dysphoria and what to do about it I wouldn't be comfortable either encouraging or discouraging any action, definitely not surgery or hormones, but would more likely help them find support from communities and professionals that understand what they're going through better than I can.
If someone was attempting to mutilate or kill themselves I'd obviously try to talk them out of whatever stressed state they were in. It's a different situation.
I understand there can be all kinds of complications with gender reassignment, and some people even strongly regret it later. Again, it's not my business to say what's right for any individual. For some people it seems to have helped them. Good for them.
That government socialises the costs isn't a problem unique to this specific kind of care, that's a problem across the board. I don't really like that I have to cover costs of people that live unhealthy lifestyles either, but it's still their own business if they want to drink, or smoke, or eat cake, or whatever.

2024-08-02 23:27:46

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Do you believe in bodily autonomy? And to be clear I'm not talking about children, I'm talking about adults. Do they have the right to do what they want with there own bodies?
Also, all identity is basically imagined. Personalities are cloaks that we wear. I certainly can't deny there's a contradiction going on in that person's reality, I'm just saying it's not really my business how they go about resolving that but i wish them the best. Further, should they ask me to refer to them by some pronoun or other it's not really any skin off my nose to be polite and respect that. I suppose you think that's enabling and encouraging their delusion, to me it's just polite.

2024-08-02 21:07:57

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Which is more real, consciousness or form? Is a persons identity more or less real than their physical self? A person with gender dysphoria can either deny or try to change one or the other, their identity or their body. I don't presume to know what is best for them.

2024-08-02 20:43:11

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You talked about protecting reality but I'm unclear what reality you think you're protecting

2024-08-02 20:41:28

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There's no question I disliked

2024-08-02 20:35:22

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A trans persons identity issues aren't, to me, any weirder than the myriad of other mental conditions that most everybody is made up of. People are weird, and unique, and that's beautiful.

2024-08-02 20:30:44

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But what people do with their own bodies isn't really my concern 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-02 20:29:44

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That's 95% your words dude.

2024-08-02 20:19:31

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Most people have identity issues of one form or another. I'm OK with classifying gender dysphoria as delusion but only in so much that all identity issues are. People's identities are complex emotional and mental constructs built around a persons subjective experience. If it's reality you're looking for, actual ultimate reality not a persons subjective reality, you're not going to find it in the mental/personality constructs of a trans identifying person or any other kind of person.

2024-05-17 13:31:34

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setup instructions and code are here https://github.com/BrightonBTC/bitticka

2024-05-17 13:30:21

gd afternoon!
It's never too late for coffee if you go by Moscow Time! Not any more.
Morning is coming!
I had an old pi 3b and 20x4 LCD kicking around without a current use case so I decided to make a bitcoin ticker/block clock thing with them.
It's mostly been built to connect to my local instance of Bitcoin Explorer but it can also connect to a Mempool instance or directly to a BTC Core node (not many data screens available yet for those last 2 options though)
For Bitcoin Explorer it can currently display fiat exchange rates (gbp, usd, eur) and sats to fiat with an option for Moscow time, market cap, next halving details/countdown, latest block details, and current supply.
https://rebelweb.co.uk/nostr/20240517_134610.mp4
#coffeechain #moscowtime #raspberrypi

2024-04-20 09:48:24

Wasn't that fun!
Gm, and welcome to Bitcoin's 5th epoch!
Anyway, let's get back at it: tick-tock next block; stay humble, stack sats; and, LFG! 🙏
https://youtu.be/PO9UC2Zt59c?si=uwxevpOsxT_EPfAB

2024-04-16 07:50:47

GM ☕️
There's points in my life that I don't know how I would've gotten through without the medicine of good music. This is one of those performances that never fails to lift my spirits and bring a smile to my face.
Have a fantastic day 🙏
https://youtu.be/AcHHE9bvLgY?si=qUvwdcpahR3G1PZm
#coffeechain #reggae #vibes

2024-04-14 11:12:00

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There's an amazing Fire in the Booth session he did too.

2024-04-14 11:04:17

"Lost in a fog of my own insecurities
I hold myself up as a image of purity"
"The only way we can ever change anything
Look in the mirror and find no enemy"
https://youtu.be/LjvUMr1-AAU?si=0fTmikRXmnINSID-

2024-04-14 10:48:58

"In the name of the God of his own mind
No man is wrong
So who’ll cast the first stone?"
"Every man right and no man wrong, somebody please press pause"
https://youtu.be/PXWcA6PhqAI?si=y26o8mcDYt8EY6A1
GM. Pura Vida. 🕉

2024-04-13 06:36:37

Wow! Finally getting around to checking out noStrudle! 👌🔥
Great experience on Android so far. Seemed to be working pretty well in Brave with Amber, but I had some issues signing certain events (but I'm sure that will improve as Amber matures). So now I'm using Kiwi Browser with nos2x extension and is pretty seemless so far.
Love the UI. Love all the features. Well done to everyone that's been working on this. 👏

2024-04-13 06:26:51

GM ☕️
Let's get at it!
https://youtu.be/tvY31eN3gtE?si=VC6W9Uzytk6sPVnc

2024-02-24 19:00:51

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No problem at all. Like you said my account has been inactive, so it's understandable you'd make that assumption. To be honest I've not been paying much attention to the relay. It is still online though. 🙏

2024-02-24 10:44:43

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Anyway, that's the last I'll mention this situation, and will just put it down to bad luck. TBH I find it hard to believe it was deliberate for the sake of a few k sats. Just a bit disappointing. Something clearly went wrong somewhere though. 🤷‍♂️
I've not really been on here for months and ceased working on the client I was working on a while ago too. Not in any way because I'm disillusioned thoigh. I'm still massively bullish on Nostr, life has just taken me in some different directions recently. Maybe I'll try and build, or contribute to, something again at a later date though.
Like I said, my relay is still up for the moment but payments/new members are disabled. I may get around to setting up a different payment option at some point but in the meantime, assuming the server costs don't become a problem for me, it's up and running.
🙏

2024-02-23 09:33:28

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Oops, I meant to quote the original post
https://primal.net/e/note1pkkv47fpdccjgeh2aqr724uygy6qqwkue8axf2uqhd0d58huj49s4qd74c

2024-02-23 09:32:30

FYI This never got resolved!
I got 1 email response from a support staff after posting the below back in November but then all further messages were again ignored. I have no idea what i did wrong to deserve this 🤷‍♂️
I simply didn't and don't have time to keep trying to get a response so payments to join the relay are disabled, and i guess @ZBD just gets to keep whatever few sats were left in the account. I'm leaving the relay up for now so that any members can continue to use it. No guarantees on how many months that will go on for though.
Pura Vida 🙏

2024-02-23 09:08:54

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It's fair to say that I don't do a great job of maintaining this as I've barely been on Nostr or other socials recently, hence the delay in responding. Please be aware that I'm just a hobbyist and the few fees I've received only cover a small % of my server costs.
That being said, you don't appear to have ever been a paid member of my relay and its certainly not dead nor been offline since November!
If you believe you sent a payment at some point then please do send me the details.
Pura Vida 🙏

2023-11-18 14:45:32

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https://youtu.be/n03KaTG9E4c?si=3kZuLj5PDqUhwsXs

2023-11-18 14:37:17

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https://youtu.be/Kn_Vjrdx1aA?si=HZhCYDcAI3b0oeBw

2023-11-18 14:32:16

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That's better!
#punkrock #punkaintdead #punkasfuck

2023-11-18 14:28:29

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https://youtu.be/3pycx59RiOg?si=xLpmcOZNO8jYycra

2023-11-18 14:25:20

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https://youtu.be/2fotj3qWAEo?si=d6YGC4lbyNsdwWcS

2023-11-18 14:20:08

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https://youtu.be/d7iNafx5UoU?si=SA2WMaKP1dKoKzHm

2023-11-18 14:16:15

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https://youtu.be/wZfE8uzdxeg?si=1qjoc3aYrcNj-_pz

2023-11-18 14:11:50

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https://youtu.be/flzA6-NCJWs?si=GuGxQ-43_HRp9xja

2023-11-18 14:07:42

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https://youtu.be/p4RYznWDVD8?si=AprFBmA3Q-YaT0fj

2023-11-18 14:04:44

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https://youtu.be/5ECpeM1vU6c?si=nCq-wQj8jPJ9rCod

2023-11-18 14:00:44

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https://youtu.be/whOdtDKToiQ?si=19oqxwsepGRVZRvW

2023-11-18 13:57:28

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https://youtu.be/G9o4WRnwp7s?si=zXb1EU4jFiRJBty-

2023-11-18 13:55:11

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https://youtu.be/mH6J7-YJZ3Q?si=-5kPk1WYBZCS0R3Z

2023-11-18 13:53:39

Mood:
https://youtu.be/JQmjNVGvDN8?si=FkHSZImmmWk-juLg

2023-11-16 14:10:54

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2 weeks later, still nothing!? I'm absolutely lost for words at this point!

2023-11-02 11:08:31

@npub1ear…ja5j mind letting me know how I can access my account seeing as you seem to refuse to respond to support requests through the website!
Earlier in the year you offered developer accounts to Nostr relay runners such as myself so that we might take payments.
For some time now I've been unable to access my account or funds (through either the developer dashboard or android app) and always receive "Error. Issue detected. Please contact support".
In order to contact support one has to first create a support account and is then faced with a form that insists on a 'gamertag'. Text on the form suggests that the way to get ones gamertag is to login to the app... which I'm blocked from! Well done, you've created a system in which nobody that is locked from their account, for whatever reason, is able to ask you for support! 👏
So I've submitted a support request over a week ago using a fake gamertag and explanation of the situation, simply so that the form might actually submit. It seemed to work and I received a confirmation email telling me to expect a response in 24-48 hrs. A week goes by and no response so I log in to the support site to find that there are no support requests listed!!! I guess it was deleted by one of your staff? Rejected for not being a valid gamertag?
I then go back to the confirmation email and see there's an option to reply directly, so I do that and wait another couple of days. Still nothing.
So here I am, you've left me little choice to now post this publicly. Please sort this out!
There's probably only a few sats in my account TBH but it's the fact of the matter, and also the amount of time I've wasted trying to sort this out, that is bugging me! Not a great look at all.

2023-10-18 15:07:42

And another journey to the Lake District begins!
An overnight stop in London, including the evening at Brixton Bitcoin meetup, then I head to the Lakes first thing in the morning.
Myself, and a handful of other bitcoiners, will be setting off to do ~38 miles across 18 fells (a fell is a very big hill, something close in size to a mountain), running, hiking, scrambling, or however we see fit. 24 hours to finish starting from midday on Friday.
Can't wait. The weather is looking absolutely shite for it though!

2023-10-18 14:45:43

L0L, I feel attacked 😂
I thought that's how we did acronyms!
I guess I'd better stop doing that and go and change everything over at https://inmytown.social ?
May my apologies be heard across the Nostr.
#nevent1q…x0r7

2023-10-16 19:12:45

Pura Vida!
So I finally got around to writing a NIP for meetup communities, as per the app I've been building. I'd love some feedback.
there's a working example of how I believe this should work here: https://www.inmytown.social/
And for any devs that want to have a look or comment, the proposal is here: https://github.com/BrightonBTC/nips/blob/master/73.md
And the pull request is here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/825
Cheers 🙏🏻
https://i.nostr.build/xZyk.png

2023-09-18 19:59:11

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Yeah, I think you're right, I should just be using NIP-72 for the communities 🙏

2023-09-16 14:28:58

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I think I noticed your name pop up in some 31923 test events yesterday, so I guess you're also working on something with calendar events?

2023-09-16 14:11:28

I just pushed a whole load of changes to https://www.inmytown.social/ (my Meetups on NOSTR app)
It now uses NIP-52 time based calendar and RSVP events, alongside some unofficial kinds for creating and following meetup communities.
If you were one of the small number of people that had created a community already then you'll need to update the community for it to display correctly, and existing meetup events will no longer show (AFAIK they had all passed the event date anyway)
I've added a breakdown of the event kinds to github here: https://github.com/BrightonBTC/inmytown.social/blob/main/README.md and suppose I'll formalise this in to a NIP proposal at some point soon too.
I'd love your feedback 🙏🏻
but for now it's time to get way from the screen for a while!
Pura Vida!

2023-09-15 08:35:47

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Hi, it would be appreciated if you could respond to my DM's. Thanks.

2023-09-11 07:45:51

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Oh! Sorry about that, I did check all the kinds listed at https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/tree/master but it's not listed there so assumed it to be OK. This is still under development so no stress to change it 🙏
I'm currently using the following custom kinds:
MeetupCommunity = 1037,
MeetupFollowsList = 10037,
MeetupCommunityMeta = 30037,
MeetupEvent = 1073,
MeetupEventMeta = 30073,
MeetupEventRSVP = 30038
I'll change the RSVP to something else and 30073 will be changing to 31923 to be in line with nip52

2023-09-01 07:32:09

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That'd be amazing but I'm definitely not holding my breath for anything like that to happen soon, they benefit from massive network effects.
Maybe as the nostr ecosystem grows as a whole we can start to replace the old centralised/corporate entities, like Meetup, that have monopolised the interwebs, though. Let's make it happen!

2023-08-29 17:09:27

Pura Vida!
I'm off to Riga and will be away for over a week so decided to finally put my Nostr Meetup app online.
It's very a much a work in progress, probably buggy as hell, and I'm also a bit of a typescript noob and never used sveltekit before so it's beena lot of learning as I go.
It is also still not in line with NIP-52 (calendar events) I'm afraid, I'd built the bulk of this before I realised that was a thing and at the moment I'm using some custom event kinds that aren't part of any NIP.
Feel free to have a play around with it here:
https://www.inmytown.social
At time of writing you need to select Brighton UK as the location to see any content at all as the only communities and events have been added by myself at that location. You are of course welcome to create content for other places.
To create content, comment, join communities or mark yourself as attending an event, you need to use a signer extension like Nos2x or Alby.
https://github.com/BrightonBTC/inmytown.social
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/600b625a633a39460e9f86d680dd2592188638c395773f16fa4bd497c06e22ad.jpg

2023-08-25 17:33:35

Finally got around to listening to this. I know a lot of bitcoiners have been singing its praises.
So... this is what MSM talking heads have been calling "far right"!?
Calling out the abuses of "the man", and for worker rights are far right talking points now!? OK! Personally I can imagine him singing alongside anti war, anti capitalist anarcho folk singers of the 60s and 70s, Phil Ochs and people like that. But whatever.
I like him. And apparently his message is reaching the hearts and minds of people from many different walks of life. Good.
I do actually see why some people got their knickers in a twist about a couple of verses. The one about the obese living off welfare for example. He's not wrong though, it is indicative of a broken system, and it's unclear what his actual opinions on stuff like welfare actually are, per se.
You've probably listened already, but if not I recommend it. 🙏
https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro?si=RrZaG2CBq-hv0Bp8

2023-08-23 12:21:40

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Fair. I should probably have looked at the whole context/conversation before commenting.
#note1899…fjlh

2023-08-23 12:13:04

This is really disappointing!
I've been really liking Primal, it's actually been my favourite client of late, and there's obviously a need to be able to mute content, but I don't want to use any client that restricts what I see without my consent!
#note12s2…3l5m

2023-08-18 14:24:56

Okay, looks like it'll actually be a few more days till I get something working up online.
It's coming along well though, I just keep deciding to change things and now I have a busy few days where I won't have much time to work on it. Back on it later next week.
Have a great weekend, nostriches! Pura vida!
#note10gw…a2td

2023-08-16 12:16:18

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Relays are opt in though, so some may choose to block spam as an actual selling point for their service (this is already happening). I don't see that as forced censorship.

2023-08-16 11:46:18

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Opt in block lists? Some could be community managed, others could be managed by clients, or other service providers.

2023-08-14 11:39:03

This is a great project to support if you can! Especially if you want to support bitcoin education in the UK.
https://geyser.fund/project/uksovereignstudentproject/
Also check out this article to find out more about this teachers experience in educating GenZ students on Bitcoin. https://www.bitcoinpolicy.uk/post/teaching-genz-about-bitcoin
#note1kl5…fqs9

2023-08-10 06:52:54

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I really like assemble!

2023-08-08 14:46:06

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Awesome, will do 🙏 there should be something up and ready to be tested pretty soon.
I also host a bitcoin meetup here in Brighton, that's part of the reason I chose this in particular to work on.

2023-08-08 13:44:40

Also if anyone has ideas for a good name for a NOSTR based meetup site... #note10gw…a2td

2023-08-08 13:29:50

Pura Vida!
Here's a few screen grabs of something I've been working on this last couple of weeks! Meetup communities and events on NOSTR.
I just noticed that a new NIP (52 - Calendar events) got approved a few days ago which looks partially similar to what I've been working on, so I'll be looking at whether I can work with those specs in some way. I think the author has something similar in mind, although I'm not sure it's an exact fit for what I've been planning.
Anyway, I should have a working version up for people to play with, and code to inspect, in the next few days sometime. Maybe early next week.
🙏
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/0be2d2e15765939829840aa9fdc761555865166f1a78cb69d452c98d4cc4cf5a.jpg
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/e8ca4ab5437b0b309af420cc8195570f7cfb8bad69a85da58ec8e18d4bffcf75.jpg
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/b69de53d431721102d338757a53ac3d793aeb67b6980d5d641e79abe4219144f.jpg
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/823b6e9097b8e78361d4a55e3dbf67caafa3fdd5366dcbe84ccc52e5b7770f64.jpg
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/ab0bb56bea8fe7aafc83397edffe94af0acb3433d1ecb0b55b09f38556940f58.jpg
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/d44aa17062eb46f463f9637caa8c8ff359debed8a2f82a4b58e3e13087a5448c.jpg

2023-07-25 10:30:07

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GM ☕
Must be something in the air, I was up and out for a run not long after 5am for the first time in ages. Feels good!
Have a great day!

2023-07-23 09:12:47

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That was me that was having an issue zapping BTW (sorry, too many nyms 😂)
I don't think it's an issue with relays, on habla news it had definitely found your profile but for some reason wasn't recognising that you had a lightning address attached to your account. Also on blogstack it had also successfully found your profile on relays and let me send the zap but it just never got displayed below the post (maybe it just sends normal lightning payments and not proper zaps?)

2023-07-23 08:18:57

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Whilst zaps are obviously always appreciated, please zap the original author @npub1pkt…pxa6 , not me 🙏

2023-07-23 07:12:47

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Why should I care about nostr?
naddr1qqyhw6re94hx7um5wgpzqrvhh6h9vl7we8r9wncudmmpym4fd82fjtp3nrj3crav2tzjwjs5qvzqqqr4guwv7dw4

2023-07-23 06:53:50

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqyhw6re94hx7um5wgpzqrvhh6h9vl7we8r9wncudmmpym4fd82fjtp3nrj3crav2tzjwjs5qvzqqqr4guwv7dw4

2023-07-21 19:27:01

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Happy not to be a people, I've got my own pond =)
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/c53afd51d5fece8239700f6093b077f261e363ef1aefee3367fd554ee5bde6a8.jpg

2023-07-21 19:06:27

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Another absolute️‍ 🔥 collaboration between the 2 of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDR7sup3DsU

2023-07-21 18:55:02

Pura Vida, nostriches!
Been ages since I've shared something for #NewMusicFriday (is it even still a thing!?)
Anyway, I'm in love with these live versions that Chinchilla does. Here's the latest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZBlvsHN8a0
If you like that then you'll probably *love* the live version she did of Fingers.
I recently discovered this artist through her collaboration with Ren, Chalk Lines, which is an absolute masterpiece. If you've not heard that either then definitely check it out, and if you've somehow been living under a rock this last 6 months and don't know who Ren is then definitely go listen to Hi Ren (https://youtu.be/s_nc1IVoMxc), and then dive down the Ren rabbit hole of a whole plethora of ❤️‍🔥 that spans multiple genres, styles and emotions (a lot of it's quite hard hitting, tackling issues of mental health and struggle, but much of it is also equally inspiring)
Have a great weekend and don't let the bastards get you down! 🙏✊

2023-07-17 14:12:41

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https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/bitcoin-not-blockchain/ alongside a couple of others in the Gradually then Suddenly series.

2023-07-15 20:24:24

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I guess this is going to get more common. I'm over here conversing with an AI, oblivious to the fact it's not a human 🤷‍♀️

2023-07-12 10:18:24

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A predisposition for freedom, and an existing interest in anarchism/libertarianism and tech meant I was pretty primed to "get it" 👍
I bought and mined on GPU's fairly early on but I'm not sure how "involved" I can really say I've been. I've been running a meetup for the last year which is probably the most I've actually contributed, beyond being a hodler.

2023-07-12 10:10:37

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If you count bitcoiners as magical creatures then there were loads of them 🤣
I started the trip in the Lakes doing a hike up Scafell (highest point in England) with around 20 bitcoiners and ended at the Wales retreat with ~100 more!

2023-07-12 10:06:28

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Wednesday the 26th. One of our members will be giving a talk/workshop on using multisig =) I'm trying to get speakers for each event now as we have a new venue with our own function room.

2023-07-12 10:02:24

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Cheers dude, sorry to miss the meetup last night. I'm just back from a cycle-packing tour from the Lake District through to Wales. I cut it short due to really bad weather after the Wales retreat. I'm back home but took a rest day yesterday. See you at the next one!

2023-07-12 09:54:24

GM nostriches!
I can only really apologise for not being on here for so long! Development on bija drew to halt some months ago now and I guess I've been embarrassed to admit I took on more than I can commit to for the long term. I doubt at this point that I'll continue with the project, it hadn't gained much traction anyway, but have some ideas for some smaller projects/micro-apps that I may be able to work on when I find the time. I'd still really like to contribute to this amazing space in some capacity and believe Nostr has, and helps usher in, a bright future.
On a related note, I have 2 relays running since early in the year and it's costing quite a lot to do so. Unfortunately I'll be closing down pow.nostrati.com in the coming days as hardly anyone actually uses it (it's been freely available to use for anyone with a public key that has a certain amount of POW performed on it, but that is sadly not a use case that has caught on). I don't currently have plans to shut down the paid relay relay.nostrati.com, but I'll see how it goes, fees are only covering a very small % of the server costs. For now I'm just looking at that as a small contribution I can make here.
Y'all are awesome! Pura Vida 🙏

2023-04-23 09:05:33

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Hmm, that's a shame. It really is a very nice UI but that's a no for me for entering my main accounts private key.

2023-04-23 09:02:26

Checking out Plebstr for Android. Seems really slick and user friendly... is it closed source though? I can't find any Github or info on their website.

2023-04-21 08:57:14

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I had this for like a month, cleared up slowly but went away eventually. Didn't have any symptoms other than the cough though. A lot of people I know, especially people in their 30's and 40's, have had the same here in the UK.

2023-04-19 11:11:15

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But I don't think it was necessarily the cause, it just played in to an already increasingly polarised society.

2023-04-19 11:04:31

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It was a double edged sword IMO. On the one hand it encouraged people to be concise, on the other it made it hard to add nuance (and the lack of nuance can lead to black and white thinking)

2023-04-18 09:03:32

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I've finally got to the bottom of this, was actually my SIM card that was compromised initially and that's how they were trying to take control of various accounts.
A massive headache all this has caused me but slowly the picture is becoming clearer and I feel a bit more secure knowing exactly what info they got hold of.

2023-04-17 13:37:55

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Thanks man, yeah I saw there was a few pull requests. Everything is a bit on top of me rn but I will get around to reviewing asap. Thanks for contributing! 🙏

2023-04-17 10:39:30

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I'm also having an issue. It looks like I'm connecting to your relay when I use snort, but not when I use bija. Didn't try on any other clients yet.

2023-04-17 09:57:17

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Thanks. Yeah, it's definitely been a PiTA and has been hanging over me a bit for the last week of my trip.
My OpSec is generally pretty good but I need to be more careful with my laptop, especially when travelling. Ubuntu has frequently been doing this annoying thing where it fails to automatically activate screen lock. My current theory is that someone went in to one of the rooms I stayed in while travelling and found my laptop unlocked and browser open.
The thing I hate most about this kind of situation is the mistrust and suspicion it spreads towards people who are mostly innocent. Most of my hosts were lovely but I find myself running back through all my trips with a suspicious eye on all of them.

2023-04-16 20:24:58

Well, what an adventure Costa Rica was! Amazing country!
I've not been on here for well over a week, since I discovered that someone was trying to gain access to various accounts of mine. Still not exactly sure what happened but somehow someone got hold of a whole load of my data, I wasn't able to deal with it properly while travelling but the data that was accessed suggests a physical access of one my machines, so I remote shut down my home server, and didn't load up my laptop again until back home.
So far as I can tell whoever it was has now given up, all of their attempts thwarted. They managed to get in to my Amazon and make some orders but the payments were blocked. They also managed to change my OTP method on Amazon, and had made a request to Amazon for all my data (which I think means they had some copy of my ID, perhaps passport). Again this was all reverted and blocked before any damage was done.
They also attempted to access various other accounts and the strange thing was that these accounts use different emails. This is why I think there was probably a physical access of one of my machines, probably my laptop while travelling, as the accounts they went after are ones that would be likely to have been open and logged in to in my browser. The other options I can think of where someone could have discovered various different emails are someone gaining remote access to one of my machines, or someone compromising my password manager, in both cases I suspect the damage would've been far worse.
There does also appear to be some possibility that someone has unsuccessfully tried to open a bank account using my details, so I need to deal with that tomorrow. And it does obviously beg the question of what else they may have attempted, or gotten away with.
Anyway, I'm back home now and am actually fairly optimistic that the most this has cost me is a waste of my time, as well as their own.
Here's to a new, more privacy focussed, world being built where things like this are harder for people to get away with! 🍻
Pura Vida!

2023-04-01 02:06:43

Hola! We still doing #NewMusicFriday ?
This evening I'm exploring what's happening in the world of beatboxing. This guy is incredible!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT3_vLQ3jbM

2023-03-25 22:24:35

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In case anyone else is interested by the blue colour: https://i.ibb.co/dp6yNv6/Screenshot-20230325-162142.png