pinkyjay

Easy is custodial and convenient is the path that leads to confiscation, and many choose it. But difficult is self-custody and narrow is the road to sovereignty, and only a few find it.

2025-10-21 15:20:30 UTC

To note or nostr note, that is the question.

2025-10-21 03:12:17 UTC

wild times in the world 🤙 wild times on nostr

2025-10-14 12:11:34 UTC

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I should clarify that I don't need any of the transaction info, just #blockheight and header info

2025-10-14 12:10:14 UTC

I am doing research around orphaned blocks - does anyone have any good direction around where to acquire as many orphaned blocks as possible? My nodes have not been running long enough to accumulate the timeframe i'm looking for and any direction or source would be greatly appreciated. 🙏 #bitcoin #timechain

2025-08-05 19:46:52 UTC

are old laptops with decent batteries unintentionally the best nodes because battery is UPS? 🤔

2025-07-28 17:22:09 UTC

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same with bookmarks - need a client that manages that locally
#nevent1q…2aad

2025-07-28 17:21:29 UTC

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same with bookmarks

2025-07-28 16:39:15 UTC

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this coincides well with something i've been recently thinking would be nice to have - a client (browser extension/app(?)) that keeps a local list of people you'd like to follow, shows posts like rss reader, and opens notes to other clients to read full conversations/what-not. something @nprofile…zkw0 -like but browser app/extension-y. it would provide privacy of following without the bloat of posting follow lists and, I imagine could make on-boarding a lot easier. Public follows are overrated.

2025-07-28 15:46:13 UTC

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nostr got me excited for coding again feeling like the old web and I did a thing last year that was never released because as interesting as it was, what you write kinda emphasizes the reason i stepped away from nostr (along with the rest of social media).
coming back to nostr and social media after a long break, I think the biggest thing is there is a content problem, partially for the reasons you laid out. I think another part of the content problem is nostr clients have just been reproducing the web as we have know it up until the age of social media; centralized, isolated, trust-based, sign up your first born or else. If it wasn't that sort of content, it was bombarding you with ads to do this thing or believe that.
nostr allows us to more readily fit the client around the content - to that end the medium is the message. nostr is not the medium (except to the devs who are and have been playing around) to attract more content but the means by which we want to see the future be built. we need more media which utilizes nostr to attract more people and that will likely change quietly (and somewhat boringly) in the background like @nprofile…cgkr
But these words hit ring true and need to be repeated for the relay in the back!

2025-07-09 18:53:07 UTC

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🤭
#nevent1q…5cv7

2025-07-09 18:37:58 UTC

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👀 are you gonna do a rebind of the Bitcoin Standard?

2025-07-09 04:39:47 UTC

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forever! thanks nostr! 🤣

2025-07-08 16:28:45 UTC

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what killed me was seeing how consistent entire small communities didn't get payroll distributed by the weekend because a stupid database procedure timed out trying to make the nightly FED cutoff time... often these communities didn't get their money till the following Tuesday

2025-07-07 04:04:14 UTC

People used to say 'agree to disagree'
I think the analogous contemporary phrase would be 'you can miss me with that (shit)'
... i'm here for it

2025-05-28 17:29:33 UTC

Makeup : Women :: Lifting : Men

2025-05-28 04:54:04 UTC

How is it that i got a weather update via nostr that was a screenshot of someone asking an AI for the local weather and it was more accurate than the weather app on my phone? People are not ready for this.

2025-05-24 03:23:57 UTC

grug life

2025-05-23 17:33:00 UTC

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When you say 'most people want slavery' I see a strong ambiguity wherein you may be implying both, but I'd like to touch on it. Do you mean people want to be slaves or they want the institution (albeit invisible) whereby they benefit from outsourced slave labor? Perhaps a mix of both to assist in their own self-delusion that you mentioned?
I think most people want to be directed, not to be slaved. But given the stark reality of the choices available, they take the path of least resistance which is slavery. But to say they want the slavery seems disingenuous; they want the convenience and (often unwittingly) accept the slavery.

2025-05-22 15:27:13 UTC

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Perhaps more internet outages will be used to corral people to all trying to 'decentralize their internet' access only to have the legacy systems shut down and then everyone would be centralized within starlink 🤔 let's just hope that's not the case
#nevent1q…dqsg

2025-05-20 17:37:36 UTC

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@nprofile…cgkr, not asking you to go that far but at least get into something other than the Play Store, please.

2025-05-07 08:42:13 UTC

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solid player, still good!

2025-05-07 04:39:54 UTC

who knew playing go was such a thrill
(me 15 years ago) 🤦‍♂️

2025-05-05 05:08:59 UTC

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this one is also nice

2025-05-05 02:33:39 UTC

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without and put a circle around the ₿

2025-03-24 11:11:19 UTC

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Underrated: Primer
Overrated: There Will Be Blood

2025-03-21 21:29:23 UTC

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definitely agree (from my limited, but expanding knowledge) with this basic idea. overall, i would calling it a family-distro might be a better way to look at it; that is christianity will likely lead you down a better path. 'the right one' seems to always come down to individual parishes and experiences (pray about it) but otherwise the nitty-gritty details between them outside the overall 'jesus is the way, truth, and life' seems less important for the underlying idea of salvation given both catholics and orthodox generally state that the big man and the son have the final say anyway. so the which distro where it's mostly choices made along the way (the way has been a hot 2 thousand years). similar to bsd, maybe, still a unified structure but specific choices per distro. linux is to disparate of choices for the system, but christianity is a monolith being a monarchic system. if you make too many changes it ceases being that initial thing;and there are quite a few christianities that have done just that, but not most of the three listed albeit protestants likely have more watered down versions that cross that line more often.

2025-03-18 15:30:06 UTC

Are there any games out there that integrate nostr for anything useful? 👀 We now have apps that do many different things already, but any games that aren't using it like chess by mail?

2025-03-13 14:44:53 UTC

GM 🤙

2025-03-10 18:08:53 UTC

Seems like a lot of things are down right now, or something, based on all the posts mentioning something about it. I haven't felt any issues >_> can't figure out if this a me not using those things or me using too many decentralized things already <_<
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2025-03-10 15:28:07 UTC

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you honor us with this knowledge

2025-03-09 23:53:41 UTC

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I saw 'Chokepoint 2.0 has ended' and thought to myself, that's an interesting take. Then I listened to him say it with those words - he continues to surprise me.

2025-03-09 23:39:08 UTC

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1 - facts
2 - i initially read 'federal bureaucrats' as 'feudal bureaucrats' and had a double take 😂

2025-03-09 23:32:37 UTC

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Tick Tock Next Block
#nevent1q…jf5t

2025-02-20 04:03:23 UTC

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Not necessarily fiction, but narrative! Narrative vs Empiric is the split you may be thinking - Peterson underlines this from a narrative viewpoint and how narrative/story undergirds thought and culture patterns, from which math and physics attempt to detangle themselves and where most people get lost along the way. Picturing Quantum Processes by Bob Coecke & Aleks Kissinger shows a nice diagrammatic system that scales between the maths/phsyics/comp sci/language and after the math/diagrams they break down how it relates to each field. I would recommend Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson and Picturing Quantum Processes by Bob Coecke & Aleks Kissinger

2025-02-06 04:42:15 UTC

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what did you do that got your account on x suspended?

2025-01-15 21:15:47 UTC

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i'm thoroughly surprised pocket steak has not been mentioned yet.

2025-01-04 20:28:09 UTC

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kinda what i figured you meant, thanks for clarifying. worth the giggle.

2025-01-04 20:26:13 UTC

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not sure what that is about but made me giggle

2025-01-04 20:24:43 UTC

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🤣

2025-01-04 20:19:55 UTC

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"Save the cheerleader, save the world!"
#nevent1q…n4tz

2025-01-02 21:54:24 UTC

€0.01
As I spent time on the dock staring at Andrey Melnichenko's beautiful sailing yacht, I tried explaining to my friends how interrelated these two two things were, as I had been in country for 2 weeks and not once had I seen the coin that was supposed to represent the value of a cent in Europe.
To be fair, I have only now been to one country in Europe but that should not change the fact that either the Euro is becoming so meaningless that the cent is not commonly used or that European countries vary so significantly in economy that some countries will discount the cent and round to the nearest 5 and others not.
My friend was kind enough to gift me a €0.01 cent coin later on in the day (after returning to their place and having to look for it), which told me they do in fact exist - I was jokingly complaining that it was a ruse.
I'd be happy to learn if other countries in Europe utilize the cent more. In the meantime, here's the boat so you can think about it a while to.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/White_Pearl_A_Seite.JPG/1067px-White_Pearl_A_Seite.JPG

2024-12-30 00:10:21 UTC

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live from first principles - choose your own adventure and make sure it's your own. this is the way.
#nevent1q…zwhq

2024-12-29 20:07:11 UTC

Getting away from things is great for recharging before getting back at it to publish something you've been working on instead of doing it after.
If you publish and leave, you may feel accomplished but you get back to all the problems.
If you leave and publish when back, you can prepare yourself to tackle the next big thing without needing to react to a list of things that may have already been found.
Everyone gets to deal with life as they wish but I think I prefer the break prior to, when most of the work is done, so when you come back you get a fresh glance before publication, in case I may have missed something big in the initial push to get it done.

2024-12-29 20:02:03 UTC

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some things in life need to be repeated from time to time - I believe this is one:
#nevent1q…fsa3

2024-12-02 01:16:35 UTC

Commas are important:
'Unit test, my ass'
'Unit test my ass'

2024-12-02 00:19:14 UTC

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Thank you! I remember seeing @Moscow Time but it wasn't working when I was looking into it.

2024-12-01 23:58:11 UTC

Does anyone know if there are any bots/clients/relays specifically posting the timechain blockheight as they validate new blocks?

2024-12-01 21:48:58 UTC

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and sorry to anyone who visits my profile where i've posted something that breaks your client view of my feed as I get code right 😅
#note1r5n…9ae4

2024-12-01 21:45:39 UTC

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this is fantastic, i'm super excited to see this is action
#note187y…nq8j #note187y…nq8j

2024-12-01 21:18:59 UTC

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can't wait to get this setup!

2024-11-10 02:52:33 UTC

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who are you debating it with?

2024-10-22 21:06:51 UTC

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well seasoned!

2024-10-20 06:04:31 UTC

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appu onri~! 上へだけ!

2024-10-18 07:05:21 UTC

GM
I have just come across Scott Aaronson - fascinating individual with many decent and insightful takes, and some naïve, on a plethora of subjects.
However, he has no understanding of why bitcoin is important except in a theoretic 'money' sense.
We are still so early. Enjoy it while it lasts.

2024-10-08 22:16:25 UTC

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Vocal fry is right up there, as well

2024-10-08 04:59:00 UTC

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an echo of the first act is always a good guidepost

2024-10-08 04:55:00 UTC

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I always wondered why there was a sauna hat on the @npub12ct…c5ky site 🤣 mystery solved!

2024-10-03 04:38:46 UTC

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🤣 🤙

2024-09-30 01:03:32 UTC

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Much needed - the visual explainer is awesome as well. It definitely helped my mom understand the nostr relay idea much better.

2024-09-24 14:51:43 UTC

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Fantastic! can't wait to try it out!

2024-09-23 21:03:32 UTC

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Fancy! Definitely a next year thing.

2024-09-22 04:20:53 UTC

Certainty of death
Small chance of success
What are we waiting for?

2024-09-20 17:26:21 UTC

I’m thinking we’re low-key(?) getting to a point where we either have to further centralize or truly decentralize computing enterprises. Like keep with the monoliths of old (hardware, OSes, DB, server farms, etc) or recreate everything a bit more dispersed. There is much that is decentralized already but there is far too much that is centralized or has strong centralizing forces (Email, DNS, Browsers, Apple, M$, AWS, Cloudflare, etc)
The former provides convenience of interaction, simplicity of thought and structure, and imprisonment by ones own technological devices.
The latter is the way to awkwardity of interaction and connectivity, complexity that requires learning and understanding, and freedom from tyrannical abuse.

2024-09-18 01:55:09 UTC

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GM 🤙

2024-09-16 06:38:27 UTC

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nice graphic

2024-09-11 07:05:27 UTC

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FUIYOH!

2024-09-10 21:23:22 UTC

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Internally consistent idiomatic expressions, phrases, or words. Too often such is used that comes from a reality that is inconsistent with the universe being built in the story. Like saying something is a silver bullet if your universe has no creature from which the use of it would be deriven.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/etymology.png

2024-09-10 16:17:58 UTC

As record companies are no required for production and distribution, internet DJs may become the recentralization point for curation/advertising instead because the sheer volume of music that will be created and released going forward. Especially with the use of LLMs, the curators (likely human) will become the trusted entities.

2024-09-10 05:01:43 UTC

Home is behind
The world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadow
To the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight
Mist and shadow
Cloud and shade
All shall fade
All shall...fade

2024-09-10 04:25:21 UTC

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Honestly, I don't think you are wrong about the STRs being a bit much everywhere... but to not do it specifically here would str up more resentment for the missed opportunity

2024-09-10 04:15:51 UTC

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you know it's hamstr 🐹 - we all know it's hamstr 🐹

2024-09-08 07:34:33 UTC

All your life you've been asleep. Make straight the way for the KING! HE is here to awaken the earth, but some will not want to waken. They’re in love with the dark. I wonder which one you'll be.

2024-09-06 18:29:53 UTC

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this is nifty!

2024-09-04 05:16:59 UTC

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I've been telling people around me for the past year or two that it's been here - no one believes

2024-09-04 03:42:20 UTC

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eso mismo es donde aprendí el verbo culear - atrévete! 🤣

2024-09-04 03:34:53 UTC

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woah, TIL! Had never heard of them - jamming now. 🙏 Thanks for the recommendation!

2024-09-04 03:07:38 UTC

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stick figure explanations for the win

2024-09-03 09:05:13 UTC

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If they can choose a different client, is it really censorship or could it be curation? Can you say for certain that it would 100% be censorship? Is curation censorship? Should client made for kids allow porn or would curation be the key there? Would that be censorship?
Tough questions. I don't think it is good practice for the client creator to add a shit emoji (funny but not good practice); but I have a hard time seeing that as actual censorship when you can switch clients or even create your own.

2024-09-03 08:41:13 UTC

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Tell me you don't understand censorship without telling me.
#note19vs…8uax

2024-09-02 18:15:02 UTC

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I'll hopefully have a video of it out soon showing some of my work but the idea I got from https://nosta.me/ which after using for quick profile references to check against my plugin.
Definitely agree on freedom and filtering being a requirement to perceive reality.

2024-09-02 17:58:28 UTC

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I didn't mention users, stop assuming clients must cater to users - it's a dev curating the experience. You don't like it - leave, that's not censorship. The information is accessible elsewhere in the pure form you seek and is directly accessible should you care to run your own relay. That client has a red flag for you but that doesn't give you a bit of authority to dictate to devs how they MUST present information they receive from the network.
You don't like that the library may have added checkout slots to the books because it alters the effective published artifact. Go to a different library if it bothers you so much.

2024-09-02 17:46:46 UTC

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That would be crazy - I'm working on a plugin and realized I don't want to include an npub's followers and just include npubs that the profile follows when traversing profiles. The can of worms that would open should that be called censorship.
Moreover, I imagine that would cripple nostr's scalability.

2024-09-02 17:34:43 UTC

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I like steel men so here's mine: both arguments have merit since censor is ambiguous with at least two meanings:
1 - to remove/edit access to information
2 - to suppress intended information propagation which could come in the form pejorative framing without removal
However, when information is like water and someone wants filtered water because there are certain things they wish to prevent, it seems more like an expression of personal curation than censorious.
If one thinks curation is censorship, then Nostr will not be very fun as it scales. By that metric, not using all information would effectively be censorship and that's not reasonable.

2024-08-29 09:29:01 UTC

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Nifty - thanks for the videos!

2024-08-29 09:18:25 UTC

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Check out @npub1z29…heag - I've been on a tear about it

2024-08-29 09:13:42 UTC

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@npub1z29…heag is great for browsing profiles without the baggage of social media mechanisms
https://primal.net/e/note1u6h5nztwpwtgts6tkp93946p0a0dqs8v29d57tkpap30xy550lysdtlq96

2024-08-29 08:51:33 UTC

@npub1z29…heag has/is one of my favorite clients:
- doesn't care how many people follow you, only cares about who you follow
- shows a great use case for nostr that isn't a full blown social media derivative
- recommends clients with more capability should you not just want to browse profiles
- passively opinionated beautiful profile presentation
- fantastic reminder that nostr clients are what you want make them to be and don't require interaction on everything
- isn't flooded with 'explore'-ing notes/media

2024-08-29 08:38:26 UTC

Does Bitcoin move at the speed of light or the speed of block?
Why?

2024-08-25 17:50:48 UTC

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This has been top of mind as I've been quietly working on a plugin for something to onboard more people into nostr but I've been pushing this bit off for lower hanging fruit
grumble grumble something something mobile bunker BBQr

2024-04-14 19:55:18 UTC

@npub153x…ryu8 you ever think of eventually limiting your sales to specific times/months of year to ensure it doesn’t get stuck in a truck somewhere cooking?

2024-04-07 01:36:11 UTC

I feel this - not stacking hard enough! #note1g9y…0mx4

2024-04-05 17:13:26 UTC

Schrödinger’s feminist 🤣

2024-03-30 23:29:33 UTC

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Appreciate it!

2024-03-30 23:25:58 UTC

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👀 what is? Got any resources on it? I’ve been looking using frost recently and would like to see how it compares