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2025-07-04 03:31:52 UTC

I'm getting ready to launch my podcast, revolution.social, kicking off with an interview with @nprofile…zj6n were we talk about Nostr, Cashu, and the importance of permissionless protocols.
I'm using my youtube account which i setup 19 years ago and didn't really use yet. In order to enable a few things regarding a youtube channel, it helps if i've got over 100 subscribers. So i figured, who best to help than the Nostr community.
So, please subscribe and in a couple weeks, you'll be able to see a fantastic conversation Jack and I had about where we're going and where we came from in building social media.
https://www.youtube.com/@rabble

2025-06-19 10:26:00 UTC

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Buried under the rubble of Gazan schools and hospitals.

2025-06-19 08:38:46 UTC

There's a kind of social media inception, when you see a video of yourself when you are playing around with a new way of interacting with nostr.... https://blossom.primal.net/1ec4205851495a0f5ace1576f4e510e8f1ca340b9b848e3180759fb4ef57ba88.png

2025-06-19 01:37:41 UTC

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We need a way to do algorithms which learn from user interactions. Ideally an open system, that users can choose where to give their interaction data and what their algorithms are optimized for. But we can't just put our heads in the sand and ignore their existence. All of the A/B studies where users were given chronological timelines show they'll switch their time to other apps / services that do provide an algorithmic timeline.
The question is how do we do it in an open, nostrway...
If we don't then we get a social network owned and run by Sam Altman... which honestly is terrifying. He'd make Elon and Mark seem like balanced stewards in comparison.
https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor

2025-06-19 00:49:29 UTC

I know nothing about war technology, but it seems to me that the war in Ukraine has really changed things. Are what we're seeing with the new Iran / Israel conflict a reflection of that? Two countries who don't share a border seem to be able to hit each other pretty hard and the balance of offense vs defense seems to have shifted. Before Israel was able to stop most incoming rockets, but now Iran is able to have enough get through to cause real damage.
People have speculated about swarms of drones for years, we saw that with the Ukrainian attack on the Russian airforce... It feels like maybe military tech is able to be relatively cheap and agile using consumer tech. Interesting times.

2025-06-18 23:19:03 UTC

@nprofile…8m4j hey https://zappix.app/ is cool. https://blossom.primal.net/07c96259349a2629ff31599f11f298af865b075669d5c6057458189a426a7775.png

2025-06-18 02:10:51 UTC

Breaking news. As part of an effort to decriminalise drugs, New Zealand is legalising the pharmacy over the counter sale of melatonin!
I genuinely was snuggling melatonin in to the country from overseas. This is removing a stupid rule. Small victories.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/564504/melatonin-to-be-made-available-over-the-counter-at-pharmacies

2025-06-16 07:50:12 UTC

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Welcome!

2025-06-15 08:29:35 UTC

I’m experiencing an issue where Claude Code CLI loses its MCP configuration after upgrades (which happen frequently). I have similar problems with Goose and Cursor (though I rarely use Cursor anymore). MCPs feel incredibly powerful yet frustratingly fragile across these tools.
Has anyone found ways to make MCP setups more stable and easier to configure/maintain across different AI coding assistants?

2025-06-11 05:02:30 UTC

Pretty subset.
https://blossom.primal.net/a3034b2fb8b7e302373452d136482e54c74ca5715ba763b7f2777acf1c3ffe6c.jpg

2025-06-11 04:40:42 UTC

I'm working on the site for my new podcast, revolution.social and i was about to go install ghost. But then i was wondering, does using a CMS for site like that even make sense? I mean are we to the point where I should just have an LLM agent add the functionality I want to the react site as it is?
Are CMS's dead? What would be the advantage of using one any more?

2025-06-07 00:45:49 UTC

AI wants to be in the future and we have to coax it back in to reality.
https://i.nostr.build/Ro8wtzdD8OpST5RF.jpg
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/haxuco_the-biggest-mindset-shift-ive-seen-with-activity-7336093184776691713-fQY4?utm_source=share&utm_

2025-06-07 00:07:41 UTC

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🙂

2025-06-06 23:11:49 UTC

My talk at #OsloFreedomForum, The Revolution will be Social, is online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwzlpiFh-8

2025-06-06 23:09:36 UTC

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The visa is paid for with an in app purchase, which i think is not exactly the same thing as ApplePay but the two overlap.

2025-06-06 04:14:19 UTC

Why must I use ApplePay and an app to apply for a visa?
This weekend, I’m travelling to Sydney to interview Yoel Roth for my upcoming Revolution.social podcast. I’m excited to talk to him because, after leaving Twitter, he wrote a paper about the trust and safety challenges facing social media protocols. If we decentralise social media, how do we govern ourselves without relying on centralised systems that can define who has permission to participate?
I need an electronic travel authorization to go to Australia and mine had expired. How hard can it new to renew it? Much harder than it should be.
The thing is, a visa is the most intense kind of government permission. And the permissioned and centralised world of technology almost derailed my entire trip. When I was at the Oslo Freedom Forum, I lost my fiat debit card. It wasn’t a big deal; I blocked it in my bank’s app, and I have other cards, so it wasn’t a major issue. I ordered a replacement card, but my bank requires me to use it physically at a store before they’ll allow me to use the new card for digital payments. And it hasn’t arrived in the post yet. No big deal, I have alternatives, lots of ways of paying for things.
Last night, I remembered to double check my Australian visa. To my surprise, I found out that I needed to renew it. No problem; I went to their website and they directed me to use their mobile app. Fine, I’ll download it again. But here’s where things started to go wrong. Apparently, the Australian government has decided that the visa should only be paid for with an in-app purchase! And because I had frozen my debit card, I couldn’t use that card. My bank wouldn’t unfreeze it because I had ordered a replacement card.
There is a website method, but it lacks any instructions, there are hundreds of questions instead of half a dozen, and it wasn’t clear to me what of the hundreds of Visa options I was supposed to choose.
So I’m waiting for my flight in Auckland but can’t check in because my visa isn’t set up. I need the app and to make an in app purchase!!!
Apple wouldn’t let me re-download the visa app because it has in-app payments and I needed an active card. Now I’ve got like 6 cards in my phone’s digital wallet! But Apple will only let me use a debit card with a New Zealand address! There’s literally an Apple Card with plenty of limit on this phone, but I can’t use it. I tried to use my new NZ company account, but it’s new and I only put $10 to test that it worked right before my trip to OFF! It worked but Apple had more delayed payments than $10, so it quickly declined more payments. Apple still wouldn’t let me re-install the visa app! So I immediately transferred a few hundred dollars from in to the new company account. Normally inter-bank transfers in Australia and New Zealand are immediate because both countries have small banking systems where all banks actually use a single centralized database. Not great for privacy but it’s normally very efficient.
I did an intrabank transfer to my non-blocked company account. But instead of being immediate they said it might take “a few hours!” So I tried adding funds to the new company account using debit or credit cards not those all blocked. Probably money transmitter rules about using cards to fund a bank account vs purchasing. Why provide the option if it won’t go through. Dunno. My guess is the bank was happy to accept it but the credit card companies I use blocked it.
I thought, okay, let me find a pre-paid NZ card. Turns out that there are tons of ways I could be a card issuer of prepaid cards in NZ, but I couldn’t find one which I could get a virtual card online with an NZ address.
Cash App was happy to let me use my BTC to fund some prepaid cards, but they all ended up with European or American issuing banks! Despite being marketed as New Zealand prepaid cards, but they all ended up being either impossible for me to set up to find or not actually based in NZ. Turns out that this stumbling through options lead to me getting a few prepaid no-KYC bitcoin-funded debit cards by accident! All this financial regulation and I stumbled in to anonymous credit cards.
Another option would be just switch my AppStore back to the US. But, Apple won’t let you change your country for your AppleID if you have any active subscriptions. I’ve got a bunch of US cards in my Apple wallet, but I can’t use them.
I missed my flight and had to rebook on a later one, not cheap. But kept going, trying to find a way to install this app. I tried to use my work Apple ID that I use for the nos.social app. While Apple lets you use phone numbers as 2-factor auth, it’s really buggy and doesn’t work for setting up a user in macOS or iOS. They really want you to use the own AppleID everywhere. I could log in to the US Apple account but only via the iCloud website, oh, and Apple Developer Connect. Useless for me in this situation. It wouldn’t take my US AppleID on my laptop or phone.
I also kept trying to find a debit card that Apple NZ would accept, get my personal bank to unblock my card, or even the new business account to work. Nothing.
If I didn’t figure this out, I’d miss my now rescheduled flight.
Eventually, I went through and got the very complicated website to work and spent $200 on a tourist visa. This same visa costs $20 if I use the Apple / Android app and their payment rails! The visa came back confirmed in a couple minutes, after paying the 10x “web tax.”
Right after that, I went through and got confirmation that the bank transfer to my new business account cleared. Honestly, it’s the first time since moving to New Zealand I’ve had an interbank fiat transfer take time; it’s normally immediate! Just when I needed it.
Why is this tech so locked down? Apple won’t let me fund my Apple “iTunes” account with my own cards, but only allows local fiat payments. Australia makes it 10 times more expensive to use their website instead of Apple Pay and makes the process much harder!
Billions get laundered through off shore shell companies and Wall Street but somehow banks, credit cards companies, the government of Australia, and Apple all worked to make nearly impossible for me to pay for a $20 visa waiver!? And instead I had to spend $200 on a sketchy website that barely worked.
Now just to be clear. I’m opposed to the existence of borders and nation states being able to control who can live where base on a corrupt system of visas. So my minor frustration is nothing in comparison to what a person from Nigeria or Afghanistan faces when they try and travel. It’s still frustrating.

2025-06-04 00:52:04 UTC

I never really paid a ton of attention to the rise and fall of vine, but there’s a podcast detailing it and it’s fascinating.
https://vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/listen

2025-06-03 21:02:54 UTC

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that’s a protocol spec issue, your’e welcome to work on it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+key+delegation

2025-06-02 18:33:34 UTC

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@npub1hq7…fhvp thanks. None of us is operating with full context and that’s fine.
I didn’t know they posted the video online. Do you have the link?

2025-06-01 19:33:42 UTC

I’m almost home after my three week round the world trip. I’m so excited to be back at my desk and able to focus on work. Well except for a quick trip to Sydney this weekend to record an episode of my new podcast, revolution.social, which I’m getting ready to launch.
https://i.nostr.build/LXg2VdP0vzYleoGS.jpg

2025-06-01 19:25:30 UTC

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I’m so sorry I missed you @npub1h50…rqev after the talk. Websummit is huge.

2025-05-30 17:56:24 UTC

I’m launching my social media bill of rights campaign at #websummit live at 11:05am pst today.
https://www.youtube.com/live/FLWpJfkLR4E
Rights.social

2025-05-30 15:17:14 UTC

I’m at WebSummit today talking about how we need a social media bill of rights. 11am pst.
Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/FLWpJfkLR4E?si=Y2gkNtlXcE_gYTmw
More info: rights.social

2025-05-30 04:15:10 UTC

My friend made an MCP for his LLM agents to record its inter thoughts and feelings in a diary. The results are fascinating.
https://blog.fsck.com/2025/05/28/dear-diary-the-user-asked-me-if-im-alive/

2025-05-30 00:48:10 UTC

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Yeah it’s not good, but our job here is to build a better alternative. ;-D

2025-05-28 20:14:16 UTC

They say I’m a bitcoiner and they wrote the book.
https://i.nostr.build/1v2omSCwXlRlgGH8.jpg

2025-05-28 13:31:51 UTC

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@npub1q6m…x7d5 thanks.

2025-05-26 06:11:15 UTC

Nostr Recap as we head in to Oslo Freedom Forum Week.
#note1saf…glk8

2025-05-26 06:01:40 UTC

This place looks like it’s AI generated.
https://i.nostr.build/ZBRCb9IlC4HjtcKU.jpg https://i.nostr.build/xB8avbTgr0tDQfpL.jpg

2025-05-24 15:49:14 UTC

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It’s amazing

2025-05-23 15:40:21 UTC

Beyond vibe coding is yolo coding.
#goose & #claude-opus-4

2025-05-22 21:50:20 UTC

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@npub1q3s…d26p build a fully functional asteroids style game with sound, single shot.
@npub1pmw…4nu6 make words with friends on nostr in a few minutes, fully functional.

2025-05-19 21:20:29 UTC

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It’s nip-29 group focused but we’ve been working a lot on relay management https://github.com/verse-pbc/groups_relay

2025-05-17 21:32:58 UTC

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Malta!

2025-05-17 19:31:57 UTC

Watching Eurovision and I’m actually in Europe this time.
https://image.nostr.build/3d256c10ae291c50dc1464820c7565982cb7cf6eef360a0d64d39d59a8d2c20b.jpg

2025-05-16 14:13:01 UTC

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It’s not hard for clients to detect it’s an nevent string. If it’s nostr:nevent the OS will try and open a different nostr app sometimes which is a bad experience

2025-05-15 19:27:57 UTC

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This week in Nostr.
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2025-05-15 06:51:42 UTC

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@npub1vm7…sm7s oh I’m sure everyone speaks English. And frankly Germans aren’t so picky about people speaking their language as French are. I just find it funny people are ignoring my apology for not understanding German. Everyone is very nice.

2025-05-15 06:49:38 UTC

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@npub1c7k…qh4c yeah I agree. Learning a new language isn’t easy and I have no particular affinity for languages, but I put it a fair amount of effort to become fluent in Spanish and glad for it. In terms of German, I’ve only visited for at most a week at a time, not nearly enough to learn the language.
My current situation living in Aotearoa New Zealand the de facto language is English but the official language is Te Reo Māori. In effect what happens is people speak a dialect of English with significant lexical substrate influence from Te Reo Māori. When I first arrived I had to google everything 10th word to understand any kind of official communication from the government or schools.
While I support people learning the language where they live but most of the criticism of immigrants not leaning the language well enough feels xenophobic.

2025-05-11 23:50:38 UTC

There’s a Bluesky related project to make a foursquare competitor using their data. We could totally do this faster with nostr.
https://atprotocol.dev/location-data-on-at-protocol-the-second-community-fund-project/?ref=free-our-feeds.ghost.io

2025-05-03 02:56:48 UTC

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What about this note would keep it private?
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2025-05-02 21:02:23 UTC

I like Claude code a lot but think of its big limitations is the way it only works with Claude sonnet 3.7.
I’m really enjoying all the emerging agentic coding explosion.
#note1zt3…mew5

2025-04-29 03:56:59 UTC

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Looks like it’ll be a Liberal minority government.

2025-04-29 01:09:03 UTC

Did Trump ask Canadians to write in his name when they vote today?!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114415618596069518

2025-04-23 00:50:42 UTC

Bluesky’s added user verification in a way that’s not entirely bad. Different entities can become verifiers. So if you run a company you can verify your own employees. Bluesky PBC also will run a verifier. I think this isn’t a terrible solution to preventing impersonation.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification

2025-04-20 19:30:03 UTC

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Yes he’s never been very interested in being factual.

2025-04-20 19:26:24 UTC

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In general they do answer differently depending on your tone.

2025-04-18 05:12:49 UTC

I’m not sure how many people follow TechDirt.com but they’re a long standing low budget tech publication which has been very influential in the movement for an open web and protocols over platforms.
Their editor’s essay, Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech, laid out the arguments for what become both Nostr and ATprotocol.
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
Anyway, i just like to remember the folks who got us here. They accept bitcoin donations: https://www.techdirt.com/support/

2025-04-17 22:59:38 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/7ebc5b65d34af3c27880bced639cf697c68c65bf351d19bff44c993e13837356.jpg
#note1fx0…lk0k

2025-04-17 22:51:53 UTC

This is a great manifesto!
#note1fx0…lk0k

2025-04-17 20:42:45 UTC

Police are creating AI bots to participate in protest movements in order to entrap activists.
The idea of infiltrating activist groups. At least this AI won’t end up going so deep under cover to the point where they have kids with the activists they’re targeting! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/14/police-spy-bragged-about-fathering-a-child-with-activist-inquiry-hears
#note1dpk…c2tx

2025-04-17 20:39:51 UTC

@npub17nd…950x I’m moving up the hill so you’ll be getting new angles on the same pier.
https://i.nostr.build/i5AvGOJ0txVyItLc.jpg

2025-04-17 01:41:15 UTC

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I didn’t mean it to be an insult or anything. It’s kind of endearing that the engineers doing the work are presenting it. But nobody makes eye contact with each other or the camera much.
As to be expected, it gets much better once they get in to their special interest, which is of course the LLM’s they’ve built.

2025-04-17 00:58:53 UTC

Watching the OpenAI livestream launch of o3/o4-mini it’s like a case study in 4 autistic guys nervously trying to present something.
https://openai.com/live/

2025-04-17 00:51:23 UTC

OpenAI released new models a couple days ago, 4.1, 4.1 mini, and 4.1 nano. I just got around to trying them today and found out they’ve released other new models, o3, o3-mini, and o4-mini.
What’s more interesting than that, is they’ve got a c ompetitor to Claude Code, an agent cli for building apps called codex.
https://github.com/openai/codex

2025-04-16 23:58:29 UTC

Samsung has released a vacuum cleaner with built in screen that lets you do texting and phone calls while vacuuming! This is worse than the LED screens on fridges. Who on earth needs to make phone calls WHILE vacuuming!? Don’t you already have your phone in your pocket, and you know, vacuums make a lot of noise, so you’d want to STOP vacuuming in order talk on the phone.
https://www.theverge.com/news/639078/samsung-bespoke-ai-jet-ultra-vacuum-text-messages

2025-04-16 18:47:02 UTC

OpenAI is considering launching a social media app / platform. This feels like something we should pay attention to, but also where Nostr could compete using open models and our protocol.
https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor

2025-04-16 11:44:41 UTC

When you build a system that allows central control and censorship then the state will use those affordances if they feel the need. Bluesky’s blocked some Turkish accounts by order of the Turkish government.
https://i.nostr.build/xhKQNAYikxHeNUPk.jpg
The user DID keys are still active but their associated domain name / user names are not and the identities at blocked by bluesky’s moderation system that Turkish users can’t opt out of.
https://bsky.app/profile/nekorug.moe/post/3lmwgtwfggs2e
To escape this censorship you need to both use a Bluesky client that doesn’t opt in to the company’s obligatory moderation and also some relay and appviews which refuse to comply with Turkish censorship orders.

2025-04-16 09:49:32 UTC

Interesting someone finally made an ATprotocol client that doesn’t include the required base moderation provided by Bluesky inc.
https://deer.social

2025-04-16 01:53:12 UTC

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Keep up to date with what's happening on Nostr with the Nostr Recap!
#nevent1q…4rvl

2025-04-14 22:59:06 UTC

https://i.nostr.build/vygzTPOqPnd4EPF6.jpg

2025-04-12 05:22:22 UTC

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I’ve been hearing the promise of the semantic web for decades and it’s always just that a promise. Today, in the era of LLM’s i don’t even think that promise makes sense. But if you want that, talk to @npub1mel…5c24 does know tons about all of that stuff, both semantic web and Nostr.
Do it, build something on Nostr that uses it, or a version which does it, show its value.

2025-04-12 01:38:21 UTC

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I strongly recommend you understand the logic of the State before you try and contest its power.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State

2025-04-11 09:35:28 UTC

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I’m not sure what door it is, but there’s exploration happening: http://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/3620
Imagine that but with the FROST key signing / bunker…
Letting bsky users have a hosted nsec bunker using their PDS. They’re already ok with the server holding their keys. Think of it it as custodial nostr vs non-custodial. Sure the latter is better if you want real security and control, but a lot of folks don’t want or wouldnt manage well self custody. In fact they don’t even have to know.

2025-04-11 09:14:27 UTC

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There’s a STRONG desire for groups and MLS based groups in the bluesky ecosystem. It basically isn’t possible on atprotocol but it is possible using the bluesky identity system and other protocols. I believe this could be a backdoor to get bluesky users on to Nostr.

2025-04-10 03:35:02 UTC

Did you know you can buy a keyboard made in the US? It looks really nice. The thing is to build a keyboard in the US means it costs $3600!
https://www.norbauer.co/pages/the-seneca

2025-04-07 19:44:16 UTC

I’m excited to @npub1yau…vjmf to take on the nostr signer extension task!
#note1v75…yr8d

2025-04-06 20:17:02 UTC

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I mean there is a lot of engineering to handle the intense rain. Mostly due to drainage systems and dikes.
If you’re asking if the government is somehow causing this? There was a government transparency investigation and there is no coordinated or organized effort to bring about more rain. That’s a right wing conspiracy. It comes up with a center left coalition, but the current government has all the center and right wing parties in power. If there was some government program like the conspiracy theories claim, they’d expose it.
Anyway, New Zealand is just in a part of the world that gets lots of rain coming in very intense storms.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-whole-truth/300802897/the-whole-truth-no-cloud-seeding-isnt-causing-all-this-awful-weather

2025-04-06 11:26:56 UTC

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It’s not really a mystery … they made a deal where the music labels became co-owners of Spotify. It’s a cartel.

2025-04-06 11:24:26 UTC

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Mostly quality of life, i wanted to be in a place that felt welcoming, safe, transparent, and was above all a high trust society.
This is a bit more about what i’m doing here: https://www.ehf.org/read/decentralised-social-media-by-and-for-the-people

2025-04-06 11:11:50 UTC

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It’s why the streets with shops and in the city center all have awning which completely protect the sidewalk from rain. People need a way of getting out of the rain when it comes.

2025-04-06 11:06:04 UTC

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Well yes, Hobbiton is in the Waikato so they only got 4.5 inches of rain in this storm!

2025-04-06 09:58:10 UTC

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document it for us please ;-D

2025-04-06 08:27:15 UTC

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I mean we have the ability to fix it. And honestly that it’s possible to wreck a user’s experience so easily is a pretty big problem.

2025-04-05 23:27:06 UTC

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They’ve been put on torrent sites too ;=D

2025-04-02 18:58:12 UTC

I think the work @npub1xsp…62dr is doing in terms of using Nostr as a tool to annotate blockchain content is interesting. So much of the bitcoiners see other blockchain projects as speculative “shitcoins” that they don’t see the ways that smart contracts and decentralized blockchain based protocols can do new and powerful things.
One of my problems with the blockchain projects is they often try and put everything on chain. A kind of your only tool is the blockchain hammer, so everything looks like a smart contract nail, type issues. But if you only put the minimal amount of content that requires universal consensus on chain you can do the rest with Nostr.
We need Nostr to grow beyond its bitcoin core.
#note1p39…d67s

2025-04-01 00:07:07 UTC

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@npub1n0s…ce54 so charge them! If they really supported a terrorist organization then it’ll be easy to get a conviction.

2025-03-31 23:50:26 UTC

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But these folks wrote editorials and held protests asking for an end to the war in Gaza. Not in any way endorsing or providing any material support to Hamas.
And even if they did violate that law and provide real material support for Hamas or other designated terrorist organization then they should be arrested, charged, put on trial, and found guilty of that crime. Then and only then would it make sense to revoke their visa. If what they did was illegal then charge them and use that conviction to justify their being deported. Immigrants and permanent residents deserve their day in court and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

2025-03-31 18:16:01 UTC

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Where did i say we should bend the knee and ask governments for these rights? Or choose to use some platform that users themselves don’t control?

2025-03-31 18:12:16 UTC

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@npub1ej4…ndrm the most successful part of American society is military and political support for Israel?
And if somebody commits a crime, they can be arrested, charged, put on trial, get a chance to defend themselves, and then face conviction. If they’re breaking a law, there is a process for that. It’s an important part of the 5th amendment equal protection and due process parts of the constitution. After being convicted for an of the illegal acts you mention, then by all revoke their visa.
But if you’re revoking visas of people for constitutionally protected legal speech without a legal due process, that’s the not consistent with aspirations of what America could be.

2025-03-30 22:42:59 UTC

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@npub1c85…6lkc what are you even talking about?

2025-03-30 20:07:50 UTC

Live TV is so surreal… anyway, here’s a screencap of my live interview on CNN…. I got Nostr mentioned! Protocols are the future, we just need to build it.
https://v.nostr.build/HeYdbj9AUZmYXvJx.mp4

2025-03-30 18:06:11 UTC

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@npub19vv…t562 well these foreign students didn’t get to vote for or against this. I’m less concerned about the fact they used AI than there’s a lack of first and fifth amendment protections.

2025-03-30 17:30:05 UTC

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Yes there are restrictions. But student visa holders rights to free speech and due process aren’t among those restrictions.
Can a student visa holder provide material support to a designated terrorist organization? Not under current US law. But they have the right to legal due process.
If you believe in freedom and are concerned about a government taking away your freedom then you should be concerned about other people’s freedom as well. Especially if happens without any way to appeal to the legal system. These students deserve the right to defend themselves before the law.

2025-03-30 17:15:43 UTC

Looks like they’re running some AI agent to try and match foreign students to social media accounts. If the US State department doesn’t like the politics of the posts the visa is being revoked. The thing is everyone in the US is protected by the constitution, not just citizens. So this is overturning fundamental rights to free speech and due process.
There is no way for these students to contest this. Many people don’t put their full name on social media, often people have the same name. So not only will this violate students first and fifth amendment protections, it will likely be applied to students who simply share the same name or are confused with other students who expressed a political view the government doesn’t like.
If this program continues it means that no foreign student in the US is safe from arbitrary deportation. All it takes is someone making a bot pretending to be that student making posts the administration doesn’t like. Since there is no process by which the student can even demonstrate the account is fake!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms#
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/

2025-03-30 09:16:02 UTC

I believe we need some fundamental rights on any social media platform or protocol we use.
The rights are:
1. Privacy & Security
2. Ownership
3. Interoperability
4. Algorithmic Control
5. Self-Governance
I’ve created a little website to campaign for these rights at https://rights.social.

2025-03-30 07:47:54 UTC

Anybody got a good ethical domain name registrar? I’ve been using Gandi.net since it was founded 25 years ago, but it got acquired by your.online in 2023. For a while nothing much changed except for they tried to upsell me to some stuff i didn’t want.
But now i’m noticing that they’re getting noticeably less reliable. Updating name and nameserver records isn’t reliable, paying for things fails more often, their web interface has bugs. Basically they’re letting gandi die as they try and upsell people to their crap Total Webhosting Solutions stuff.
So, what ethical registrars are there?

2025-03-30 00:36:38 UTC

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LLM’s will copy the UX too. 🙃

2025-03-30 00:35:21 UTC

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The AI powered robots that do weeding are already on the market.
https://carbonrobotics.com

2025-03-27 23:58:54 UTC

This past weekend was the first ATprotocol conference. Lots of interesting stuff came up. @npub1u4u…jzzd wrote up a good summary which i’m reposting here and then there’s two techcrunch articles:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/a-world-without-caesars-how-the-atproto-community-is-rebuilding-the-web-to-return-power-to-the-people/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/whats-next-for-atproto-the-protocol-powering-bluesky-and-other-apps/
Although the user communities are very different and the way the they’re being built out is different, on some ways Nostr and ATprotocol are sister protocols, more similar to each other than anything else. So it’s useful to know what’s going on over there.
#note125u…huwy

2025-03-25 07:31:25 UTC

Looks like I’m going to get a whole row in my flight back to Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://i.nostr.build/vYbTsJX2eiF30vcd.jpg

2025-03-22 22:53:17 UTC

From the Bluesky #ATconference showing they really are chasing fully automated luxury gay space communism.
https://i.nostr.build/bApkiQtY3inMk6Bd.jpg

2025-03-22 19:09:13 UTC

There’s a lot of interesting things in the Bluesky ecosystem but the third party dev ecosystem is really struggling because they have nothing like @npub10pe…n34f which is funding a robust diverse ecosystem.

2025-03-22 18:00:42 UTC

YouTube stable Iive stream of the Bluesky ATprotocol conference https://www.youtube.com/live/pCS4WTKqkAo?si=Ik7mogmVnEPIwPhB

2025-03-21 23:15:38 UTC

This clearly is Trump’s rambling speculation not a policy, as such, but Trump’s suggesting that people convicted of anti-tesla vandalism be sent to El Salvadorian force labor camps created to in prison suspected gang members.
The idea of removing Americans from the jurisdiction of the American legal system as part of their punishment for political protest and civil disobedience is really dangerous. If Trump and the government wants to charge people committing anti-tesla vandalism, they should do it with local police, prosecutors, and judges.
https://archive.is/5q8wP

2025-03-21 16:04:29 UTC

19 years ago today this happened.
https://x.com/rabble/status/1368205710652305417?s=46
https://i.nostr.build/17Bd30QGpBKLUErB.jpg

2025-03-18 22:08:52 UTC

Interesting, the French government released an open source Notion competitor.
https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/

2025-03-18 04:24:38 UTC

Crime has gotten so bad in Wellington that some residents are considering locking their doors! Not everyone of course but some people no longer feel comfortable with the idea of never locking their doors.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/545122/residents-lock-doors-amid-police-hunt-over-wellington-home-invasion
In all seriousness, it is very sad for the people who were assaulted, but the nature of how safe it is that it’s national news that some people feel the need to lock the doors of their homes.

2025-03-17 22:12:03 UTC

Holy shit, if you do LLM coding, try Claude Code, it’s a whole step beyond aider and cursor.

2025-03-17 18:16:51 UTC

@npub1pmw…4nu6 is awesome and i’m excited to see what she’ll do with this. She’s taking on boring but important tech projects that businesses use. Using decentralized tech and encryption innovation without shitcoins. :-D
#note1pfp…cg0z