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Just to say:
- https://news.ki.se/high-meat-consumption-linked-to-lower-dementia-risk-in-genetic-risk-group
- https://news.mcmaster.ca/researchers-find-link-between-ultra-processed-foods-and-infertility-in-u-s-women/
Well, most people struggle to grasp the concept of digital private property; they understand what it means to own a pair of shoes, but they don't get what it means in digital because they see a screen and, to them, what they're looking at is just there, on the screen in their hand, not coming from someone else's servers.
This simple phenomenon makes it easy to set up certain business models and, besides, the shift towards cloud+mobile, essentially modern mainframes + dumb terminals, serves perfectly to deny the average person "the power of the desktop" and, with it, personal ownership.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/ the real point and scandal is not FBI who buy, but those who sell, who already possess such data...
You need to define what being a sysadmin means. Imagine a distro like Umbrel, Start9, Univention, etc essentially a distro that serves a web app with a series of "pre-configured" services by default. Imagine it's not based on obsolete distros like Debian, but on declarative distros like NixOS, where devs don't fork but simply maintain the config with every update, giving users something that practically never breaks between releases.
Being a sysadmin in this case means knowing how to deploy a distro on a home server, basically a generic desktop computer recycled for this purpose, following a fairly trivial wizard, and using the services. If something goes wrong, there's the community to ask for a hand maybe with Nostr/WoT as comms and social score backbone + economic model behind.
The skills you need cut across every discipline; it's IT knowledge that even a greengrocer needs to have today.
The problem is that today's devs don't understand this; it's not their world because they haven't experienced real FLOSS. They were just born inside some giant company, using its services, without knowing anything else. This is why there's been a push to eliminate or marginalise Ops, and today, with LLMs, they're trying to marginalise devs, just as doctors are being marginalised while glorifying nurses, as "paramedics" etc. In other words, anyone with PERSONAL ability and PERSONAL culture is being crushed, because through these they build their PRIVATE property and aren't just a number, a stereotypical Ford-model worker to be managed on an assembly line, but a capable individual who stands on their own two feet.
You have every right, then, to complain about the state of complication rather than the complexity of modern software, but you also have the need to know just enough to be sovereign in society in your time. Otherwise, well, you can only be a slave, and even if that doesn't sound pleasant described so bluntly, it's necessary to digest it and choose.
Very true, but how many people actually have a home server? Because that’s the prerequisite we should all have, just as we should all have a domain name, IPv6 with a global per host, and a basic IT literacy that spans every discipline, yet is lacking in almost every discipline, often including PhDs in CS and CE.
Nowadays we write everything on computers, except perhaps for a few notes, but most people don't know how to typeset a decent document, they don't know how to generate a graph, do basic maths, or draw in a simple CAD or freehand style. In other words, most are incapable of communicating their thoughts using the tools of their time at the minimum level necessary to be defined as an "intellectual" or a "cultured person".
On the Bitcoin side, there's also a software problem: we need a single, trivial-to-deploy application that does everything, modular if you like, but unified and well-documented. Not Bitcoin Core and LND and Alby Hub and Zeus... we need to be able to say, "Want your own bank? Right, go install ... | cargo build ... | uv install ... and you've already got what you need; nix develop if you want, or check your distro's package manager, you don't need anything else. If you want, put NGINX in front of it, but it's not necessary, you're up and running with just this app. Go to [::1]:12345 and you've got the web UI with your on-chain addresses, you create a Lightning channel on the fly, manage its liquidity, and you've also got the documentation, links to mobile Lightning wallets, logs, etc. You also find a textual dump of the config to makes anything easy reproducible. You don't need anything other than to study this single, cross-platform, well-documented project". That’s how you spread it to the masses; as it stands today, it's beyond the level of effort even most nerds are willing to put in, so people end up on CExs and living on someone else's services.
There's Umbrel, Start9, etc which is good, but it's still not enough and it's lagging behind because the people behind these distros are stuck in a bygone era without realising it; they don't offer a solid enough foundation for the end user.
A chopping board, cut at a sharp angle to get a useful shape and a good final surface, starting with a height of about 7cm using a chainsaw. Then, place it on a workbench and secure it by screwing it into the side. Set up two flat guides at the necessary height, and place a long enough board across them with a router mounted on top; use this to plane the rock-hard wood to a "mirror" finish. Once one side is done, flip it over and do the second. Use a chisel or the router itself to create a drip groove that ends in a drain at one end of the "ellipse".
Cut as shown in the photo, there isn't much else they can do. If you want, you can use wood carving discs (grinder discs, made like wood rasps for carving, dangerous to use, so be careful) to shape other things, for example, a stylised fruit bowl to be decorated later with a pyrography pen or chisel, but this requires much more skill than the chopping board and the practical daily use isn't great.
If there's still a long piece left and you like polenta, you can make a classic Italian "polenta stick", literally a stick about 80-90cm long, with a diameter that's comfortable to hold and a wider, flattened end. But carving it from a log requires a certain level of skill; you can even do it without a lathe by starting the cut with a chainsaw and then setting up a "DIY lathe" using a drill and a router. It's a long, frustrating job for a result that doesn't make much sense anymore now that we have self-stirring pots for polenta, but it can be done, just like you can make large kitchen spoons.
Nowadays, most people need a programmer, but big companies, just as they get rid of doctors to make way for less competent and therefore more docile paramedics, are looking for code monkeys. In the same way, sysadmins have largely been phased out in an attempt to have people who are easier to boss around. The result is that we no longer have anything new, and the number of constant problems is skyrocketing.
Being technically decentralised doesn't make it practically so. The Web is technically a hypertext, running on a partially interconnected mesh network, yet nowadays the bulk of traffic flows between a handful of giant hubs, to the point where "marginal" social networks stay that way simply due to a lack of critical mass, and not having an account on some giant's servers is a communication problem for many. We have, and consider normal, major communication systems that only talk to themselves. XMPP is decentralised by design, yet when it was popular, Google was the main player and its changes were adopted even if they were unsuitable for most, simply because they were needed to interoperate with it. When Google abandoned it, the users vanished and XMPP essentially died, having become irrelevant.
To put it another way, yes, Nostr is decentralised by design, but this peculiar design makes it practically centralised, and it is, or rather will be in the future if it succeeds, a problem. Just see Primal as an example.
I casually discover it :)
Not in a rush, I don't know how to contribute but I curiously observe hoping for a good progress because Nostr IMO have much potential, but lack some aspects to really succeed and loosing a potential success for just some issues well... It's a waste...
The problem I see is that messages aren't "evenly spread across the network" but are concentrated on a few relays, and it even happens that some replies only reach certain relays. The result is centralisation on the most popular relays.
The solution I see is the classic DHT, basically algorithmically spreading content across every node in the network, which will have storage and bandwidth quotas in its parameters. This leaves the administrator free to reject certain content or keep some in full, but fundamentally every message is split in chunks and some chunks are automatically spread across nodes. Historical examples include Usenet on one hand, as a decentralised paradigm, and eMule/KAD or ZeroNet for the distributed one.
The solution I see for further improvement is to not have "Nostr client only", but client+relay in a single package, with potential support for Tor or ZeroNet or something similar for those behind a NAT. Those with an exposed host can provide a way to punch through holes in NAT for those who don't, but basically every client is also a relay and blossom server.
I hope that's clearer now, and I don't see any bullshit or rudeness in what I'm writing. Meanwhile, as a fairly new user curious about Nostr and from the old-school *nix background, I see a tense community that's not very interested in the rest of the world, which isn't a good thing for achieving success.
I'm desktop (nearly) only... When on the go I'll try but it's a rare use. Most of the time (being full-remote worker) I'm on my desktop and since on NixOS I have only Gossip (broken since months) I tend to use web clients.
But I'd really dream of a wisp web built-in the MOAR :)
Idem, significa che anche su Nostr non siamo così marginali :)
Si, io in genere a chi scrive in inglese rispondo in inglese semplicemente perché non so qualche sia la madrelingua della controparte e ad oggi avendo vinto loro l'ultima guerra mondiale l'inglese è la lingua franca come prima lo era il francese...
Most users simply install a client with a set of pre-defined relays, those who don't anyway want got messages where there are the most crowds... If you are telling that's not a Nostr rule "you have to follow" that's definitively true, but what happen is an actual centralisation.
Contento di rispondere in Italiano :)
pesa questo: serve, in una fase iniziale, pesa bene questo inciso, puntare al bipede medio, quello che di IT sa nulla, installa l'app se il nome/lo screenshot lo convince e in 5" di prova decide se restare o mollare? Per me no. I dev correnti però puntano a questa demografia, più o meno consapevolmente.
Per me in una fase iniziale serve prendere "il linuxaro medio", il nerd, che ha un serverino domestico, spesso un modesto raspi o due, che sa qualcosa ma non oltre quel qualcosa, quindi qualcuno che vuole un'app unica, go get-abile, cargo build-abile, pip-abile, o già nei pacchetti della distro di turno, unica e sola, che faccia tutto. Non vuole scegliere un relay, scegliere un client, trovare che non c'è 'no straccio di documentazione su come configurare opportunamente il relay, che qui manca un server blossom, che li manca un filtraggio dello spam, che laggiù manca il supporto alla chat, ... poi vedere che gli serve coturn per poter aver l'audio, ... vuole un singolo pacchetto, che sia app desktop o webapp da servire via NGINX non importa, ma che sia unico e faccia tutto, client, relay, server blossom, chat, ICE/TURN/STUN ecc ecc ecc. Se c'è questo e vede che è carino, visivamente va bene come andrebbe XMPP/Matrix, ma qui si fa anche il blogghino personale, c'è pure la possibilità di far un ecommerce banale con gli zap, ma nessun obbligo di farlo beh allora quel singolo nerd che prova si tira dietro alcuni amici ed alcuni parenti e dopo un po' questi su scala raggiungono la massa critica necessaria a diventare anche pronti per l'utente-utonto.
Questo manca. Non solo in termini software ma proprio in termini di comprensione e interesse da parte dei dev. Nostr è pieno di progetti confezionati al volo e abbandonati, gente cordiale, che ha voglia di fare, ma non ha una visione d'insieme ed è abituata al modello commerciale delle megacorps dove non c'è il problema del lancio di qualcosa perché sono le PR che lo fanno, non i dev. Dove c'è un modello di rapporto "col cliente" ben diverso.
Cosa fa di buono Nostr?
- ha capito che il punto è comunicare testo, non html, testo semplice, al massimo MD o org-mode, tutto qui, il grosso della nostra informazione è testo dalle leggi agli sms passando per libri, giornali e post. Nostr offre comunicazione testuale come la offriva Usenet, ma con una UI assai più libera e accattivante. Come Usenet supporta anche contenuti multimediali, in maniera più efficiente dei gruppi binari. Supporta post brevi, cui manca una UI stile Lemmy/Reddit per aver successo, la rubrica distribuita modello Facebook/LinkedIn (questa c'è già), post lunghi (blog/siti personali), stanno più o meno arrivando le chat con anche audio e video
- ha anche un modello economico, non valido per i relay, valido per fare un web economico
Cosa manca:
- l'app unica, che sia client+server e che vuoi via Tor, vuoi via altro come ZeroNet, la vecchia rete KAD/eMule, ... permetta visibilità anche al nerd medio senza un nome a dominio, dietro NAT
- un design coerente di questa con un minimo di documentazione per il setup e l'uso
Senza questi non si andrà lontano. Ai margini il modello di decentralizzazione dei relay sovrani finisce come vuole la teoria delle reti in pochi grandi hub, quindi la decentralizzazione teorica salta, splittare e spargere l'informazione come faceva KAD/DHT in genere, IPFS, lasciando agli utenti giusto la scelta di pinnare contenuti "questi li vogliamo interi sul nostro ferro" e bannarne alcuni marcati esplicitamente "questi non li vogliamo" mentre il resto è solo una quantità massima di storage e banda a disposizione della rete, beh, senza questo non è vera decentralizzazione, si finisce con pochi giganti e tanti relay ignoti.
Well... Consider that Nostr is not really decentralized. The relay model means some large hub and many relays unseen by most, so actual substantial centralization without imposing it formally.
Nostr is awesome for many reasons, but it's not really decentralized. Largely ignoring both the ZeroNet failure lesson, the Usenet success lesson and the eMule/KAD model. If this not change Nostr will remain marginal unfortunately.
https://realinvestmentadvice.com/resources/blog/usd-stable-coins-and-the-rebasement-of-the-us-dollar/ this article have a valid point: as long as people do not accept sat for common shopping BTCs are a game for giants not for retailers. Being tied to fiat for the last mile means being tied to fiat period.
That's the damn issue.
I dream a realistic usage over LoRa (BT is not usable for such purposes, since it's range is way too short geographically) but so far it's only a dream, there is way too little bandwidth for "a parallele P2P mesh internet"...
I have the same lack of trust in private banks and central banks, so well... For me a CBDC it's not worse than using a Visa. The issue with BTCs it's where I can spend: most merchants around me do not accept SATs and using crypto cards is using Visa/Mastercard so not much safer.
That's the damn real issue: so far crypto cards works well, we can spend vintage SATs with peace of mind. BUT there's no guarantee this will last, and once you take away Visa/Mastercard, until the majority of shops accept native SATs, even having 100k BTC isn't unfortunately going to save you. It's fine for sovereign states selling oil, other raw materials, or industrial products, but for the average person who just wants to live their life, buying the food they need, maybe a car and so on, it's a massive problem.
As long as you have to go through fiat currency one way or another, your freedom, even if it's slightly greater (you have "your bank safe and sound"), is still limited.
That's a broader problem in Nostr design: clients need to be relays too in a single app, so we don't end up with such massive imbalances between giant relays and tiny ones. Otherwise, Nostr will be decentralised in name only; in practice, it'll be just like XMPP, which was popular as long as Google Messenger (I can't remember the exact name) used it, and then pretty much vanished once they stopped.
Unfortunately, I fear there's no real desire to understand how to structure a truly decentralised network. We do need entities to help with NAT traversal, absolutely, because many people are behind NAT, but then clients should simply have a default setting for storage and bandwidth available to the network being relays as well. We could have WoT filtering if we want, or explicit blocking of someone's content (even using DBACL and the like) if we want, but the rest should be decided algorithmically and spread out. Evolving towards a handful of major hubs while the rest of the relays remain obscure isn't decentralisation, it's the death from the start.
At some point, some big relay will be bought out by some who want to censor; most people will stay there anyway because that's where the bulk of other humans are, and you'll get the same effect we're seeing with Reddit compared to Lemmy.
https://virginiabusiness.com/blackrock-limits-withdrawals-private-credit-fund/ another quake in finance, BlackRock limit withdrawals from it's HPS Corporate Lending Fund (26bn), Blackstone forced to inject 400M to avoid the crac. Others private equities suffer as well (Blue Owl Capital, KKR, Carlyle Group, Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, TPG Inc etc).
After REITs now the "golden haven" of private credit prove to be not a haven at all...
Probably very true, but also the BTC entry barrier (to be sovereign) it's not that good, especially for Lightning. We have a certain cohort of power users who understand the risk of depending on others, but when they see how much they need to study and try to setup "their own bank" at home they give up.
These power users are needed to attract others. Apps on someone else systems might work in some third world countries who are anyway largely better then anything else, but not in developed countries...
Umbrel/Start9 are good, but marginal, BTCPay Server is complex, a simple unique "app" easy to deploy on GNU/Linux homeservers, easy to administer declaratively and via a webui it's largely missing. In the west still nearly nobody had real baking issues so they are not much interesting to change without such an easy and sovereign entry barrier. Too many abandoned projects, too little docs, so many scam scary many. Those who enter years ago when "entering" means just few fiat for many BTC takes the risk easily, now with current exchange rates things are different.
Toward the Org Mode future: distributed notebooks: https://chrismaiorana.com/org-mode-notes-publishing/
I dream org-mode integrate Nostr and vice versa, meaning Nostr client (Emacs included) could render org-mode (maybe 200ok.ch lib could help) to really makes the new web of information, people, the new Usenet, (re)born.
To clean things up, we need a different barrier to entry: we need a decentralised Nostr that's usable by newbies with a bit minimal technical skills straight out of the box. In other words, not a client for someone else's services (relay), but a single application that connects locally to a network, bypassing NAT as best it can, acting as both client and server (relay). The user shouldn't have to worry about relay lists, only about how much storage and bandwidth they're willing to give to the network.
This is what made eMule and KAD so successful, and it's exactly what we need today, from file sharing to sharing text-based information in a new web that's no longer client-server or heavily dependent on browsers.
I fear, however, that many modern devs don't understand or even know this model, having been born and raised on the broken IT of Big Tech. Consequently, they can't work in a world that's unknown to them because, even with all the right skills, they still lack the awareness of a different model, its necessity, and the opportunity it presents.
Re-read https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/255104/clean-break-seven-wars-chaotic-middle-east and the older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan things will be much more clear AND simple.
Add https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Countries-with-the-Largest-Oil-Reserves_Web_01052026-1.webp to clarify better
Me personally I use Radicle, I've not tried ngit, but the little I read is not that attiring compared, what I miss from such a quick scrape?
I think current Bitcoin mini-bull run is exactly due to this: many have seen their stock market trading restricted, disrupted, or completely blocked in various countries around the world; some have even seen withdrawals frozen by various banks, limits placed on international transfers, and so on, and have perhaps begun to realise that something not controlled by specific third parties is needed to be able to move funds with reasonable security.
To be honest, I'm watching. I'm not convinced this is a mini bull run driven by bullish investors. I see it more as a search for an asset that can't be frozen by banks or brokers. Right now, the trading operations of many banks and brokers are limited, and various "glitches", which coincidentally happen much more often now than during the rest of the year, are, in my opinion, making a lot of people think: "Yeah, well, I've got assets in my portfolio, it's just that I don't actually hold the portfolio; a third party does, and they pretty much do whatever they want with it," so they're looking for alternatives.
You'd have to be a right mug to think this war will be over in a flash, and by now, most people that gullible have already been rinsed, so they've got no money left to invest. Sure, there are windfall profits from weapons and oil, and those making them know full well such profits won't last for various reasons, so they're trying to diversify and move into assets safer than TradFi or fiat currency, but that's not enough. The fact that gold is dropping at the same time makes me think people are specifically looking for something that can't be blocked, knowing full well that most gold is held in ETCs, basically virtual gold...
We'll have to wait and see; a short squeeze is possible.
A scrap of thought on Bitcoin in extreme crisis situations.
The crux of the matter is simple: the bulk of the population, those trading most goods and services in IRL economy, don't use BTC, don't own any SATs, and don't have a wallet. This means that to use BTC, they have to go through third parties that handle the conversion to fiat via payment cards. It's a heavy dependency, not much different from the one you have with fiat money in a bank.
Of course, BTC crosses every border, so if one country blocks it, you can hope to go to another and operate there with your own non-seizable funds. But for things like eating every day, paying for travel, and so on well, they probably won't be usable for that in most countries.
So I see BTC as a refuge, like a pirate's chest buried on a remote island to be touched only in an emergency, a bit of activity for personal exploration or speculation aside, but they aren't enough spread for life security in a bad crisis (like war). Gold coins for short-term use are still useful, as is local fiat currency, and that's frustrating because technically the infrastructure is there. Despite many issues, from on-chain TPS and fees to many Lightning payments failing, it exists. However, without sufficient adoption, we can't reach the level of protection possible for all of us.
What do you think? What kind of "fire sale" portfolios do you consider sensible, asset by asset?
I'd be careful with a statement like that: yes, formally we have a massive amount of information accessible in the form of hypertext, searchable via "refined" keyword-based search engines and LLMs, and right there we have a bit of a problem. We have almost nothing in the way of "unbiased" search engine solutions, YaCy is one example, but it's too small to have enough coverage for real-world web use. Yes, we also have electronic currency, like Bitcoin, but even today it's accepted by very few; there are services that convert it on the fly into fiat with Visa/Mastercard cards behind them, but also these are SPOFs with a significant chain of dependencies, and we've had plenty of lessons like those of WikiLeaks, the anti-Trudeau protesters in Canada, Francesca Albanese, and the many others like her who have been similarly economically blocked by the EU, and so on.
Things aren't going much better on the hardware front either: we have x86 (open platform even if not open hardware) which is fairly widespread to be sourced, sure, but it's also getting harder and harder to build decent PCs due to the cost of graphics cards, RAM, and NVMEs, not to mention the mere sheer shortages that make it difficult to buy what you actually need, and often what you do get is of increasingly poor quality. The push towards mobile, which consists of closed SoCs and basebands that are even proprietary by law, is stifling. More and more people, especially for children and students, are giving in and being handed connected spying systems, essentially mobile junk instead of FLOSS desktops.
It's no better at a public level: public administrations are increasingly imposing digital identities and mobile-only services, forcing citizens into a dependency on these tracking proprietary devices. We've already seen what happens at border crossings with this hardware and the consequences we can suffer if it's simply blocked or remotely manipulated in various ways, starting with basic Lightning payments: we can pay on-chain using an (open) hardware wallet, but with Lightning that's not necessarily the case, which implies a dependency on mobile devices that aren't ours but belong to the OEM, giant US and Chinese players, and so on.
To conclude, technologically speaking, I quite agree that we could be in an era of progress and well-being; the fact is, however, that we aren't, due to the deliberate choice of four kleptocrats who are busy feeding a vast mass of Le Bonian bipedal cattle. Knowing ourselves isn't enough to protect us much, nor to protect our children, because while we can do a bit, we still depend on society for so much. Even if we became farmers in a remote hermitage, certain that we'd never need healthcare, or have emergencies we couldn't handle alone, etc we still couldn't really manage physical defence against hostile states. You might deal with a thief, but police and armed forces are impossible to manage on an individual or small community scale.
Homeschooling makes it possible to reduce state indoctrination, and forming individuals who think for themselves and share their family's knowledge is a good thing, but it isn't enough to protect them.
Translate this old (1894) discourse from a seven-time Italian Ministry of Edu: https://web.archive.org/web/20210424055431/https://www.cronologia.it/storia/tabello/tabe1530.htm the core is
We must only teach reading and writing; common people should be educated just enough, teaching history with a healthy nationalistic slant, and reducing all sciences to a single subject of "general knowledge", without any precise syllabus or textbooks, leaving room for the teacher's initiative and re-evaluating the noblest and oldest form of teaching: domestic education. Finally, we must set aside anti-dogmatism, the education of doubt and criticism; in short, just make them read and write. They mustn't Otherwise there'll be big troubles!
-- Guido Baccelli
BTW is also useful to quote Cardinal Carlo Carafa (1517 - 1561) "vulgus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur" or the people want to be deceived, so let them be.
Maybe less. Many Nostr projects is designed by younger devs simply seen the design choices, I can't give substantial data to support my claim but as a gamble I think more 28-30 as a realist center of the gaussian for age.
Given the modern network theory any network evolve toward few large hubs, so well... Personally I prefer having less control on my node, meaning just set storage and bandwidth limits, while the algorithm spread chunks of information that individually can't be identified as "illegal", so I have anything I want to have (things I publish or reshare), but I still offer some storage to the network and no one but a DHT control it.
Doing so allow to reduce the hub phenomenon and offer an easier way for newcomers to self-host, like the old eMule/KAD network. A client is also a relay over Tor or something else, the user define the limit. Web clients open to all are just a choice of some.
A small notes: many seems to ignore that Semitic peoples are also many non-Hebrew ones. And zionist are not Hebrew but a small cohort of them.
Between the Semitic there are:
- various non-Hebrew arabs
- Maronites
- various Syriac cohorts
- Amhara and Tigrinya's (Ethiopia and Eritrea)
- some Maltese cohorts
So well... Anyone who state that anti-zionists are "anti-semite" simply ignore the meaning of this word. Me personally though to be more clear I call certain people simply nazist, since that's their political root.
Nice but... Please no AI, and an ethernet port. Many will never self-host on generic iron, but could buy ready made iron with FLOSS on top as a fw, so that's a very nice idea, adding LLM though even if "local" it's a big minus for many and be wifi only is not good for some as well. A WebUI served in LAN would be nice, since voice commands can't really be a useful UI beside the wow effect for common folks.
Many exchanges offer APIs to trade with them, supporting some and allow operation could be a kind of features completeness selling to common folks "this device is FLOSS, well hardened, you can operate on some exchange and keep you own bank/your assets monitored". Optional ASIC with bitcoin core + Lightning node set up like Umbrel/Start9 would be also nice additions. A compact "personal bank" at home.
There is a plan, but most ignore it, as they ignore that wars are decided in decades these days, not quickly, because we haven't anymore an immense amount of soldiers and stockpiled resources as in the past: just (re)discover the https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/255104/clean-break-seven-wars-chaotic-middle-east or the original plan if you prefer a longer from https://www.dougfeith.com/docs/Clean_Break.pdf also discover that this plan wasn't that new but a successor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan
The trace the last wars around the globe to mark the checklist of the above plans.
I do, and I agree, but I also hope for a reborn DHT love from devs, so to spread contents everywhere, limited only by quotas instead of allowing relays to select who allow in and who not. Content well chunkified, so not complete on a single relay if the relay owner do not want it (for legal reasons for instance) but still replicated enough also protecting the relay owner from local laws. For instance I may became liable for some illegal content if I have it entirely but if they are just some chunks I can't control, and as chunks useless I'm not much liable. This will solve the concentration problem Nostr have on few large relays and many small nearly ignored by most, their owner included, since publishing there is just a backup, since nobody else use them so nobody else could possibly get messages.
Alt on average replicate BTC/fiat prices, but with larger movement, so if BTCEUR is +2% alt on average are +8% and vice versa. As a result IF you time the market correctly you earn more, unfortunately unless you have a working time machine, timing the market is just a gamble.
Some decide to risk and even if most alts loose value in the mid and long run they sell and re-buy short waiting for the next short spike. It's not much less a gamble then prediction markets but people with not too much try the all-in game hoping instead of computing.
Emacs shows how to craft a very diverse and flexible system still without UX issues :D
Beside that Nostr is "an everything network" so it's normal that clients should be " everything apps", and any modern everything app beside Emacs and Smalltalk from the ancient PARC, is actually limited by the underlying UI/UX limited and limiting model.
Nostr could be:
- a blog platform, so those who want to blog well... Need a web skeleton like WriteFreely or Hugo to build their own personal Nostrsite
- a generic discussion platform, so something like Lemmy/Reddit is equally desired
- a distributed address book, or rather a social network for humans in the style of Facebook and classic phone books
- a direct textual messaging platform, long form as emails, posts as chat messages
- a media sharing platform, for video, audio and images, so a gallery, player, playlist manager is a nice addition to have, supporting both private usage (like Jellyfin, Immich etc) and public sharing
- an economic platform, the web3 who succeeded, not just limited to few-sat zaps but also substantial jobs with the "blog/website" mentioned early who are also job boards like UpWork, MTurk etc
- for chats, nowadays people expect also VoIP call, so a TURN/STUN etc servers + the needed UI is in the wishlist of many...
- for easier management a single integrated Nostr app-service including bitcoin core and lightning node to be fully sovereign on our own homeservers is also in the wishlist of many
- since many have no knowledge to deploy homeservers BUT have some friends who have one with Nostr a web client with all the above stuff for them as well is on the dreams of many
IMVHO the current Nostr problem is that there are a gazillion of projects started as experiments with no clear vision where to go, often abandoned, so most stay away because they do not know what to do and while interested have not enough docs to understand what to do for themselves. A "reference implementation" with the above stuff, maybe "modular enough" to allow third party features on the same codebase could be a gamechanger, like Matrix vs XMPP where Matrix succeed over XMPP even if technically not much nice just because they offer "a complete package" others with little knowledge of the project could get and play with.
This is not mobile of course, but could be as app on phone + webapp/service on homeserver. Try for a lower entry barrier for casual users it's a no go because they simply cost too much for a FLOSS project who start to have filled up blossom servers. A geek easy game to start could spread enough to push more people in at a peace slow enough not to clogs the public servers.
I suggest re-discovering https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/255104/clean-break-seven-wars-chaotic-middle-east and the even older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan maybe followed by https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Countries-with-the-Largest-Oil-Reserves_Web_01052026-1.webp
Things will be more clear thereafter...
https://gizmodo.com/google-pixel-10a-is-the-same-damn-phone-as-pixel-9a-2000722838
FLOSS releases are always a good thing, but for me, this app is a hard pass. Firstly, if you're an activist during social unrest, the last thing you should be doing is using a smartphone, let alone having it on you when you're on the move; it's a top-tier spying tool and it's not the formal human owner who's in control of it.
Besides... it sounds a lot like a service for the US government to facilitate colour revolutions in other people's backyards. Not something I'd touch; as an old expert criminal politician used to say, "having the US as an enemy is a risk, having them as an ally is fatal".
Having a name similar to the Bitcoin ecosystem doesn't make it any good.
desperate for war, to save themselves from their subject (people) raged revenge...
I agree, but... When the governing cohort is too small it's called dictatorship, when the middle class meaning those who are active in society, engaged, interested, are to few even in democracy at maximum we can call oligarchy.
I think most have no hope, but if we could nurture those who can we can evolve, if they are to few and scattered intelligence decrease (as it do since some decades apparently) because intelligence, knowledge it's the sole natural resource who grow with usage and decline otherwise.
Me personally I'm convinced we could escape, as humanity, since we are here since centuries and we have always make it. But for the arc of my life, for the foreseeable future I'm not really optimistic at all...
When we loose, and that's already almost lost, much basic knowledge, rebuild it with some giants who still possess it and fight for their own power as anyone else is an extremely hard task. Nostr if very nice but I see in it's current state of development the issue of "modern techies" who do not really know "old school FLOSS" and so fails to design/deliver something in a shape apt to spread effectively, the basic tech is there, the engine, the controls, but the cockpit is nearly missing and that's an issue. Similarly for cryptos in general nearly anything is essentially there but still it's missed the quid needed to convince a sufficiently vast cohort of people to became mainstream for the masses, not just for few.
EU subjects, because there are few of us who are actually Citizens, are letting things slide just as they’ve let everything else slide until now... After all, while most people grasp the concept of owning a physical good, like a fork or a car, they don't get it when it comes to digital assets, just as they don't understand propaganda and its effects from big media platforms, whether it's social media, movies, or music, or news. They simply follow the herd.
Apple has already announced age verification on iDevices, and Nazis 2.0 everywhere in the world are pushing for it similarly; it's a process to shift the Overton window of acceptability for the common folk. First, they try an extreme test case; it fails, but that doesn't matter because it's created a precedent. Then, they start taking little pieces of it and turning them into structural elements, and most people accept them, the shock of the experiment has passed and the small change becomes the norm. Another will be added, then another, and slowly they'll return to that initial rejected shock, but this time it'll be fully accepted and seen as the new normal.
Paradoxically, Nostr would have what it takes to move people away from the big platforms, something the Fediverse doesn't have and never has had, but until there are mature solutions, until there's some player selling pre-installed FLOSS hardware+software (yes, we have Umbrel, Start9, we even have FriggHome, but they aren't where they need to be yet) so the average citizen can say "wow, I can do cool things at home, I need them" and buy the package with a domain name, DynDNS, to truly build their own infra with little knowledge required, the big leap won't happen. And the expensive hardware, first video cards, then RAM, now NVMEs, proves it; it's designed to take away cheap, widely available computing right now, just as interest is starting to pick up together with the possibility.
Me personally (using Haven) I'd really like an WebUI for management (storage and stats mainly, like seen what's in Blossom and easy delete something with classic lists and checkboxes + eventual regex/query search) and a client built-in so one can deploy a single application and have all setup in a single shot: "just install Haven, go to localhost:port and start reading, publishing, managing your Nostr garden", the need of separate stuff kill newcomers interests IMVHO.
The client itself well, could be very rich, like a public blog face (long form), a Reddit/Lemmy-like face (short form), a contact manager for Nostr as a digital identity, a chat UI, tomorrow adding VoIP as a module maybe, than some long form became a Wiki, some short form tasks with a management UI like Vikunja and a step at a time "the modern personal web" became Nostr.
A long journey the humanity really need :)
The issue with Lightning is mainly the channel capacity, most people fails to understand even the physical wallet limited-capacity metafore because an empty physical wallet can still be filled, there is no need of an initial "fill-up to the desired maximum", the user-facing complexity is simply too much for average Joe and the channel issues of those who choose third parties does not help.
BUT on the other side the crappy IT of banks and fintech, limits and fees, push anyway people to look for something else. Who will prevail and when it's still to be seen.
Even if used in the physical world, Bitcoin is necessarily traded online, so it’s still the currency of the internet, even if it's not that widespread yet, he have VPS sold on SAT, crypto card to pay in fiat from BTC etc it's not that bad all given. Nostr has the potential to really spread it IF it becomes visible to a large enough portion of the population, and to do that, it has to offer apps (clients) with features that attract the masses. For now, the skeleton is there, but the shells built on top of it are still too crude for the general public.
In my opinion, it's no coincidence that we're seeing the strongest wave of censorship on various commercial platforms alongside expensive hardware, age verification, and so on from a regulatory standpoint. It's a way to take IT away from the masses just as they were starting to get fed up with the commercial model and look for alternatives, alternatives that were starting to be within reach of users who aren't exactly tech-savvy. That’s the hurdle. It’s not about being the currency of the internet; it’s about reaching a model of widespread desktop and home servers computing for many, as opposed to the commercial model pushing mobile for all. It's about having a personal mini-server instead of an ISP router, an Umbrel/Start9 style setup distro + iron, preinstalled, complete with its own Lightning node, bundled with a few hardware wallets to use via NFC at POS terminals to pay for even a coffee in SATs. Then it will be a widespread currency, because the average person doesn't care about the tech nor understand digital ownership, but they do understand, at least a little, when they're in a cage, and if they find an easy way out, they'll take it.
As of today, that easy way out doesn't exist for most people, but we're relatively close.
Actually I've switched to Haven relay who have WoT built-in and seems to work enough but... I should wait at leas some months to see it will work as expected or not...
> the private key of the transaction proves that the transaction was made;
They are useless if you can't enforce the other party to comply. How can you enforce it?
> Freedom > security. At that moment, I realized you were a leftist.
Yes, Freedom is more important than security but the lack of security typically led to the lack of freedom as well, the point is not creating a dominus for security, we would get none of both, the point is creating ties who makes bad actors unable to act without significant consequences.
About poor OpSec: it's simply life, we are all off guard sometimes, no matter how careful we are.
I was born in a red and progressive environment, then I evolve and I recognize modern "socialism" as nazism, I see taxes as theft, but I'm also study economics and I understand that civil servant must be payed: how could you pay them? A toll per every single road, like in vast part of the EU in the middle age? Health care? The USA are largely private and have the most expensive and LEAST effective health service in the west, Italy is the cheapest and the more public in the EU.
Long story short: I've learnt the limits of "too simple" ideas from left and right and I see how people *beveling* in left/right ideology fails to accept the limit and really engage and that's a problem.
