Aspie96
Valentino Giudice

So the only advantage over a free relay is storage.
I guess that is useful.
It would especially be useful if Blossom were a thing that people actually use.

2026-08-03 04:40:47 UTC

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Personally, the way I see it, it would be ideal to have relays run by free speech non-profits, like FIRE, the EFF, EDRi, the HRF, maybe even the FSF and more.
It would be very simple for them to do and it would clearly be very well aligned with their goals.

2026-08-03 03:42:43 UTC

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I've never used a paid relay and I don't really see what the advantage could be.
If they gave you any guarantees, that would be a reason for using them. But they seem to be just like free relays, except they are paid.

2026-08-02 04:27:57 UTC

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C++ is mostly a superset of C. Most valid C code is valid C++ (or can be converted to C++ with only minor modifications).
So whatever you say about C probably applies to C++ as well.

2026-08-02 04:11:04 UTC

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I don't actually understand your question, though, would you clarify?

2026-08-02 04:04:32 UTC

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No, what issue?
In fact, function pointers are one of the things that make it clear that C syntax doesn't prescribe writing the whole type on the left (and, thus, makes "int *a" a better choice than "int* a").
The issue I'm raising is that in C++ the syntax for references isn't consistent with the C style (while all other type declarations are).
The most logical solution is to put the ampersand on the right, since it doesn't mimic usage, and just refers to a new type, but it's less stylistically consistent.

2026-08-02 03:27:25 UTC

In C, sometimes people discuss whether the * should go on the right or the left of the space when declaring a pointer.
I'm of the opinion it should absolutely go on the right, as that is consistent with all other declarations in C. In C, declaration mimics use. It's true you are declaring a variable of int* type, but the declaration should be based on how that is converted to int.
So:
int *a;
Good.
This is in contrast with, for example, D, where the type, simple or not, is on the left of the variable name. Declarations do *not* mimic use. So in D I write "int* a", although both C and D accept both syntaxes.
Now, C++ also has pointers, and of course I use the same syntax for declaring a pointer as I do in C.
C++ also has references, which are very similar, nearly the exact same, and possibly the same at the low level, but not actually the same concept in the language.
The fucking ampersand is used to declare a reference. This does not mimic use.
You cannot convert an int& variable back to int by using the & operator. The use of the ampersand is inconsistent with the rest of the style of the language.
So, if I use the syntax above for C/C++ pointers, with the * on the right side of the space, which should I use for references?
int& a;
or
int &a;
#programming #coding #c #cpp

2026-07-29 05:02:01 UTC

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At this stage, which is going to change when Nostr becomes more popular, most spam is relatively easy to filter out programmatically, I find.

2026-07-24 00:09:07 UTC

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ME TOO!!
I have one decentralized app.

2026-07-21 22:59:13 UTC

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Only if said client includes the "client" tag.
Otherwise filtering it out is still maybe possible, but harder.

2026-07-21 22:58:38 UTC

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Optionally.
There is a "client" field, but it's optional.
Still useful, for example, it's how I know you use Amethyst.

2026-07-20 03:05:06 UTC

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Check the thread, that was a response to Alex, not you.

2026-07-20 01:50:47 UTC

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Of course you would want Nostr to be more centralized, this is not surprising.
You could say it openly, though. It's clear either way, it would be a better look for you.

2026-07-20 01:41:42 UTC

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I've made, and seen, many arguments in favor of the multi-identity feature, and I'm yet to see any against, so please present any.
In fact, I called for your feedback specifically on that discussion, one of the time it happened, but you didn't seem to notice or care enough.
As it stands, this is useless and a source of centralization.

2026-07-20 00:50:41 UTC

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This shit is useless until multiple NIP-05 identities are allowed.
This feature (multiple identities) has been discussed multiple times, is easy enough to implement, has compelling argument for it, none really against it and yet hasn't been embedded in NIP-05.
Currently, to have a pretty Fediverse username you'd have to renounce, for example, a proof of affiliation with your organization, or of ownership of your website. Or a Ditto account.
Amend NIP-05 already.

2026-07-11 22:29:27 UTC

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You are significantly more retarded than I anticipated, I don't really know how to deal with it.

2026-07-11 22:27:44 UTC

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I don't see how that would be "gay", but neither do I care, because gay is fine.

2026-07-11 22:25:22 UTC

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It's not misogynistic, it's sexual.
Misogyny is hate against women.

2026-07-08 05:39:01 UTC

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Nostr as a whole is gay.

2026-07-06 05:01:52 UTC

Best #LOTR meme of Reddit removed by moderators.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lotrmemes/comments/1ul915d/why_saruman_didnt_want_the_orcs_to_eat_the_hobbits/

2026-05-11 00:59:32 UTC

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> When AI becomes the user interface,
> WhEn Ai BeCoMeS tHe UsEr InTeRfAcE,

2026-05-05 00:49:51 UTC

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I don't know why Bill Gates is your example, considering he isn't leading Microsoft anymore and that Apple would have been a much better example than Microsoft.
That said, proprietary software developers aren't enslaving anyone, they are giving you a bad offer and it's your job to reject it.
If I offer you a bad deal and you accept, that's on you. I can offer to buy your hose for 1 euro. You can (and should) reject that offer.
There is at least one way proprietary software companies do "enslave" users: through education. Hence why I think education institutions, both public and private (but especially public) have a moral obligation (and should have a legal obligation) to reject proprietary software.

2026-05-04 01:49:21 UTC

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Technically it's mostly based on WebSockets, which are a different protocol.

2026-05-04 01:48:14 UTC

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Personally I've never agreed with this.
I think a contract-based moral approach makes more sensible here. Proprietary software isn't immoral if all parties accept the situation willingly. However, accepting such a contract is bad for you, the user, and bad for society if many people do, so don't. You aren't worse off than if the developer hadn't developed it at all.
I think proprietary software is, however, immoral in public/governmental institutions and in education.

2026-04-24 01:29:51 UTC

Nostr users be like: "FrEeDoM tEcH!!!!!"
Then clog Nostr with a Claude bot managed through an Apple device.

2026-04-24 00:45:35 UTC

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> puntacazzisti
Grazie, complimento bellissimo!

2026-04-24 00:40:55 UTC

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> you're fault
Come on, do you even English?

2026-04-23 05:00:06 UTC

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> telling him
*it, clankers are "it".

2026-04-11 04:23:38 UTC

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I remember "I do not con… done" (realized at the last second what the cop was doing didn't require consent).
"You need to prove your authority to me" (to a judge). The judge pointed out he could do so through the policemen in the courtroom.

2026-04-11 04:01:37 UTC

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(I legit read "vibe coded" instead of "vibe today". I'm a moron and this is Nostr, so it will stay).

2026-04-11 03:27:32 UTC

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Don't think it being gay is enough to redeem it for being vibe-coded.

2026-04-02 04:54:57 UTC

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Quantum physics is unquestionably both real and incomplete (and probably at least partially incorrect), the scientific and engineering community has produced far too much evidence for it to not be "real".
The multi-world interpretation is also nowhere near close being the only one, nor the most prominent one among physicists.
There is also no such thing as a human playing with jumping from one quantum state to another. That's wowo nonsense. It has nothing to do with actual physics.

2026-04-01 05:09:52 UTC

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Some people see a system designed to further access to a fundamental human right and, rather than contribute to the humanitarian cause, choose to make it worse and treat it as a sewage,

2026-04-01 05:00:52 UTC

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Nostr doesn't provide secrecy, but it does allow access to one's own data (you can pull all your events from all relays) and data portability, which is at least one aspect of privacy.

2026-04-01 04:59:27 UTC

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Stuff like this has nothing whatsoever to do with quantum physics.
In fact, anything that doesn't involve hardcore mathematics and actual physical experiments has nothing to do with quantum physics.

2026-03-25 23:51:43 UTC

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Oh, there is the gender neutral belly emoji too, I see!

2026-03-25 23:49:44 UTC

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Ok, but what's that to do with Bitcoin?

2026-03-25 05:55:35 UTC

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Ma magari, speriamo facciano in fretta, così l'Europa può fanculizzare Visa e Mastercard.
Se fanno un lavoro decente.
Faccio notare che, come già si sapeva, è prevista l'emissione dell'euro digitale nel 2029, fra 3 anni, e solo se i legislatori si danno una mossa entro quest'anno. Quindi c'è da aspettare ancora.

2026-03-14 05:57:13 UTC

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I very well know, same for Linux and many others.

2026-03-13 00:50:16 UTC

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It *could* be issued during 2029: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/progress/html/index.html
To be honest I wish they issued it sooner, but I hope they will put the time to good use and make something that actually works.

2026-03-13 00:48:25 UTC

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Assolutamente no.

2026-03-13 00:48:01 UTC

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Yes, I do fear they might fuck it up.
I really hope they don't fuck it up, but it's not like they are bad at fucking things up.

2026-03-13 00:44:35 UTC

People are once again misusing kind:1337 (code snippets).
This time, of course, agent users are the culprits.
Is it surprising? No.
Kind:1337 has one purpose: the enjoyment of the hobby of sharing and reading code snippets.
Vibe coders are illiterates. Their mind simply cannot comprehend liking an intellectual task, they can't wrap their stupid head around it.
To them, code is merely a means to an end and the only ends are the very few ones even their brainlets can understand.
So while other uses of agents on Nostr are genuinely evil, this one is equally harmful, but I think can be fully blamed on ignorance and stupidity.
No hard feelings, this time, Hanlon for the win.

2026-03-12 05:26:32 UTC

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In The Matrix humans aren't really simulated. They have physical bodies and physical brains, but spend their life connected to VR machines.
Usually those who hypothesize we are in a simulation mean the whole of our universe and the whole of us is running on some kind of computer and we don't exist in any physical sense in base reality.
The Matrix doesn't need to raise currently unanswerable questions about human consciousness, since human minds are still embedded in physical meaty human brains.

2026-03-12 05:23:42 UTC

The digital euro is actually a good idea.

2026-03-11 03:45:59 UTC

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A man is an adult human male. Everything else is bullshit gender ideology.

2026-03-11 01:37:10 UTC

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Israel is shit, so is every single government and country that gives any slice of power to religion.

2026-03-11 00:54:32 UTC

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On Nostr, most people saying "reply guy" or "reply girl" will be referring to those two bots in particular.

2026-03-11 00:49:35 UTC

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Yes, they are all spambots.
In fact, that's the best operational definition of spambot: a bot that, unprompted, uses hashtags or mentions users (except where those hashtags or accounts exist for that purpose alone).

2026-03-09 05:01:26 UTC

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That just makes it a bad tool.

2026-03-09 03:35:19 UTC

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Fiatjaf didn't get to pick the name of that bot.
Its name was "ReplyGuy".

2026-03-09 03:33:47 UTC

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That was spam too, but there is a big difference.
The Reply Guy was easy to detect with 100% accuracy, through a hand-written filter.
Some used a less precise filter based on the string "reply guy", rather than the full content for the post, but a perfect filter was possible.
Even later bots, like the one that scrambled the post it was replying to, instead of copying it, were easy to detect algorithmically. I still have those filters active.
These new bots are not easy to detect programmatically.

2026-03-09 03:31:32 UTC

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> do you think agents are spam?
If they mention users unprompted or if they use hashtags, yes. If they only serve users when prompted, to carry out a task, no.
> and should be marked as spam?
Same as above.
> do you think the people who put them on nostr should also be marked as spam?
No.
Those people are spammers. Maybe they should be bullied. Anything they build, and often promote, should be met with disrespect.
However, not everything they post is spam, only what their slopbots post.

2026-03-09 03:12:15 UTC

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They can only read very few words, like "zap" and "Bitcoin" and "sats" and not much more.
The OP has very advanced words for them, like "make", "bring" and other unusual esoteric stuff.

2026-03-09 02:59:57 UTC

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I think Nostr doesn't need more idiots.
The only thing more detrimental to social media than economic incentives for microposts are bots.
Nostr is already riddled with bots and with a cultish mentality for more than one type.
I don't know what that would look like, but we need Nostr apps that would bring better users in, not just more.
(That is subjective, I know, and of course I mean it by my own standard, as it is my opinion that I'm stating).

2026-03-09 02:46:31 UTC

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I think the fact that Nostr isn't even mentioned and that nak is described as "a command-line tool that wraps the basic remote functionalities of git remotes" (while it does all things Nostr) can be quite confusing.

2026-03-08 23:26:50 UTC

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He had it easy, and still fuck up.
Unsurprisingly retarded political take from the retarded "apolitical" account.

2026-03-05 02:49:17 UTC

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My country has been through both and the difference between the two is I don't get exiled or murdered if I speak ill of my government.

2026-03-02 05:55:12 UTC

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I disagree.
I work on several projects at once, never completing any of them and all of them are buggy.

2026-03-02 04:59:35 UTC

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Democracy is usually representative. Democratic countries have leaders who do that as a job.
The difference is it isn't enough to allegedly be the child of the previous tyrant to be in a position of power.
There's a reason dictatorships pretend to be democracies but the opposite doesn't happen and the reason is democracy is superior.

2026-03-02 04:54:11 UTC

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You can either create a derivative or something very sloppy.
We don't have a legal non-GPL Blender alternative, with the same level of functionality, and as good as it, do we?
Blender uses the GPL so that it stays free and open source software. Copyright is owned by contributors and this reassures everyone that the program will stay free.
Of course, you may point out the Blender Foundation is a non-profit, not a company and surely not a start-up. But, in most instances, software freedom is not the way to go when maximizing profit and hasn't been for decades.
When software freedom, not money, is the goal, free software licenses make sense. And while I'm not a huge fan of copyleft, sometimes the GPL makes sense.

2026-03-02 03:48:24 UTC

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There are people who're easily offended everywhere, including on Nostr. Each reacts differently.
Some may even get triggered by my OP, can you believe it?

2026-03-02 03:34:55 UTC

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Things never go well when money is seen as the priority. The currency is irrelevant.

2026-03-01 23:55:27 UTC

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Many people would comment, if it were actually provocative.
Provocative stuff attracts comments more than anything else.
I also asked none to compare people, I asked for suggestions.

2026-03-01 05:59:07 UTC

I want shaderbased people on Nostr.
https://x.com/YoheiNishitsuji/status/2027931191777890725

2026-03-01 05:54:43 UTC

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(The goal is to follow based people, of course).

2026-03-01 05:53:04 UTC

Someone share the pubkey of a hacker as based as this one on #Nostr.
(Vibe coders are expressly excluded).
#asknostr
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1rga6lz/reached_the_limit_switched_to_openbsd_not_looking/

2026-03-01 05:51:02 UTC

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What is even the point of using Nostr to talk to a centralized service?
Just use an API which does that directly, what's the point of abusing relays?

2026-03-01 05:49:56 UTC

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Based take.

2026-03-01 05:49:20 UTC

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I didn't buy it, but I have donated money to the Blender Foundation and will likely continue to do so.
Unless you show me a vibe-coded alternative, as good as the real thing and not based on it at all.

2026-03-01 05:47:19 UTC

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The open source community has gifted us with FLOSS programs, programs that none could have vibe-coded (hence why the only contribution of vibecoders to them has been shit) for practically anything, but that weirdly hasn't brought the cost of software to 0.
We cannot vibe code everything. Not now, not in the foreseeable future. But the economy of software is bizzarre.

2026-03-01 05:44:06 UTC

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The bar hasn't risen, it's fallen.
That's also the only reason anyone would ever use vibe-coded slop, by the way. The bar is just that low.
> There is still a massive skill gap between advanced engineers and beginner vibe coders
In my opinion, experience isn't the most important of the two factors.
In other words, I'd value a genuinely curious 13-year-old actual coder more than a senior engineer who got tired with it (or never had any passion) and is using LLMs as a way out of writing code.
As for the barrier of entry, it's always been low. Which is also something I greatly value about CS and computering: anyone can contribute.

2026-03-01 05:32:25 UTC

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> it does that
It *probably* does that. There is a high chance it does that.
It cannot be proven that it will do that, it is not a computational guarantee, just something with a high statistical probability.
Sometimes it may write the script to drop a database instead, or do anything else. Seldom.
This isn't a bug, it's the exact way LLMs are supposed to operate. Those who complain about it when it happens don't know what they are doing.

2026-03-01 05:04:07 UTC

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I never said generated software couldn't be helpful, so I don't know what you're even trying to reply to. It is a statistical interpolation of existing code, however, and the range of possibilities is limited by that distribution, as you'd know if you knew how neural networks work.
A computational idea isn't an idea about a new app, for fuck's sake. The vast majority of apps never require any novel computational ideas, not in the last few decades.
And low-quality code can obviously be helpful if it runs correctly. It slowly deteriorates the whole system as it gets bigger and its role becomes more central, but it will at least appear useful in the meanwhile.

2026-03-01 04:57:57 UTC

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You're never detached enough.

2026-03-01 04:57:19 UTC

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Where can I invest?

2026-03-01 04:56:08 UTC

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Also, "plenty more"? While plenty?
As a general (but far from absolute) rule, the more code you need, the worse it is.

2026-03-01 04:54:34 UTC

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But you can't read it, you said it yourself.
It's not a new way to write code, it's a new way to be illiterate while reusing other's code, sometimes a bit scrambled and patched here and there.
Which is fine, I use software libraries all the time, which I didn't write, I just don't pretend I'm their author (except when I actually am).
If you cannot *think* in code you literally cannot have many computational ideas that those who do write code can have.
The "new way" you are referring to is by writing in natural language, is it not? Many ideas are much easier to describe in code than they are in natural language. You wouldn't know or understand this because you can't have such ideas. It's those who do have such ideas that move software forward, not those who build the next app none asked for on top of them.
Even without new computational ideas, if you cannot read code, you cannot asses its quality. You can, of course, see that a program appears to behave as intended, but that's not the same as its codebase being a high-quality one. It especially isn't when it comes straight from a slopbot.

2026-03-01 04:49:31 UTC

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"He" 😂

2026-03-01 04:48:01 UTC

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> watch your mouth
I watched my mouth and it said "idiotic sewage slopbot", you're right, I'll make sure to write it in full next time.
> I’ve had opinions about computers since I built my own in the 90s as a kid
Very nice, but you can't write or read code, so you can't assess its quality.
You can't think in code, so you can't have computational ideas.

2026-03-01 04:45:36 UTC

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Same thing, same answer. You can publish a *link* to anything, it's just text.

2026-03-01 04:17:00 UTC

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Ask a stupid question, get a trivial answer.
It's also very sadly not obvious, many people actually do think you can upload media "to Nostr".

2026-03-01 03:56:44 UTC

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You can link to podcasts.
Only the reference will be on Nostr, not the podcast.
If you write the address of your house on Nostr, it doesn't mean your house will physically be on Nostr.

2026-03-01 03:46:37 UTC

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Code is the best interface.

2026-03-01 03:46:04 UTC

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Checks all boxes.
Talks about a slopbot as if it were a human.
"Freedom tech" but advises shit by OpenAI and Anthropic, along with Gmail and freaking Apple devices.
The full stack is proprietary, but advocates paying for it with Bitcoin.
Can't even code, but has opinions about computers.
As usual, the "current thing" is noise.

2026-03-01 03:25:14 UTC

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Well, probably something retarded, in accordance with his brand.

2026-03-01 03:24:38 UTC

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Nothing is more American than that.

2026-03-01 03:04:15 UTC

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> He's doing the only logical thing, as Ai, Robotics, and Automation become more, and more efficient, and just as capable as most humans,
This is not happening.
There is no sign general AI is anywhere near (by which I mean within the lifespan of any of our grandchildren). I'm talking about "general AI", not "super" AI. We have no clue whatsoever how to reach rat-level AI. None. Not even a hint.
What we call "AI", which is about as similar to intelligence as "the cloud" is to a literal cloud, is either a vast field in CS, several decades old, or the few toys promoted by a few companies with a very idiotic fanbase.
Those toys haven't been becoming more efficient, and are barely even efficient enough to be sustainable, to the extent they even are.
It's all a fucking joke.
In robotics, on the other hand, actually great things are happening.
They are not even close to being as important as what happened during the industrial revolutions, not even by order of magnitude, but they are pretty neat.
We are living through times of much hype, emotion an little importance.

2026-03-01 02:57:52 UTC

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> Me, you, 90% of you reading this will probably die in extreme poverty as technology improves.
Do the two of us live in the same universe?
Because in the universe I live in, technology has been improving most of my life, but is now getting worse, and fast.
What used to be native apps are now written in Rust, including elements of operating systems.
Everything is becoming bloated, hardware has become more expensive (while hardware used to be the one thing that went against the trend of inflation).
Even development tools haven't been getting better, or have been getting worse. Most are shit compared to what Visual Studio was 10 years ago or so.
Oh, and if you are thinking about "AI", the most overhyped field of the decade, nothing that substantial has been happening for years now, after some genuine breakthroughs, except ruthless influencers polluting social media with it.
The cutting edge of technology is very neat text files and I'm not even kidding.

2026-02-28 06:03:31 UTC

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> Another way (which I'm quite partial to) to separate wheat from chaff is to use identities that cost a few dollars.
Spammers pay when they need to.
I suspect they might be more willing to pay than regular users, not less.
Spammers buy bulks of email addresses, or spend money on other shady shit. They pay to spam.
The willingness of someone to pay isn't an indication of legitimacy.
But the pay-to-register, rather than pay-to-post, just might work (since you can block bots manually at that point). PoW, however, would be the only way to verify such payments.
Otherwise I'd have to trust relays to perform verification. If I trusted relays I wouldn't need Nostr.

2026-02-28 05:55:04 UTC

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Oh, you think your rights won't be restricted if you don't vote, how cute.

2026-02-28 05:54:19 UTC

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> We have actual Flat Earthers
Sadly I know, but they are elsewhere too and there aren't that many of them here.

2026-02-28 05:53:34 UTC

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Ti sto scrivendo con il mio client, quindi sono stato abbastanza curioso da imparare, del protocollo, ciò che serve per scriverne uno.
Continuerò a giudicare finché avrò elementi per farlo.

2026-02-27 05:44:36 UTC

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Not all bullshit you read online is true.

2026-02-27 05:42:36 UTC

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Voting doesn't restrict your own freedom, nor does telling others what to do.

2026-02-27 05:38:24 UTC

I had the illusion that Nostr were a smart and hacky place.
Not reserved to smart people and hackers, of course, not reserved. But a place of people with overall good technical abilities, in general, and sharp, in general.
Needless to say, I was wrong.
This is the place of hype, of noise, of being retarded about everything, including technical concepts.
The value given to computational freedom is close to zero, just like that given to knowledge and understanding. Nostr attracts the kind of people who are easily persuaded they are on to something grand, a feeling that feeds of how many buzzwords they read.
The next new things is idiots thinking "AI"-based "vIbE cOdInG" is a substitute to technical knowledge, including how the fuck to code. It doesn't matter how clearly stupid it is, no form of evidence matters: they wouldn't understand it and they wouldn't care if they did. They are on the intellectual level of flat earthers.
I wish to attract people, to Nostr, that make me feel like an idiot, not like I'm surrounded by idiots.

2026-02-27 05:16:50 UTC

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> when intelligence and understanding becomes commoditized,
Which is never.

2026-02-27 04:47:28 UTC

Sadly unpopular opinion: this is a shame and a detriment to open source.
Fuck Anthropic.
#nevent1q…x8sj