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2026-03-04 10:08:09 CET

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"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.”

2026-03-04 00:22:40 CET

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Buonanotte

2026-03-02 19:09:00 CET

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Oh, fair Verona.
(checks map ...)
That's closeby. Maybe I should go there tomorrow.
There is a nice sort of somberness to northern Italy.
And the races seem to be people running? Not horses, I mean?

2026-03-02 18:52:46 CET

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Yes, I spent a couple of days at Lake Como and came down here today, proof attached. First time. I'd been to Rome a couple of times and this feels much more ... northern. I may stay another day or move on, not sure yet, maybe Venice. Or maybe Ravenna.
(I completely missed the fact that there was an Olympics recently. )
https://image.nostr.build/875cabc533bb1244e94364d5c86966486562f23a7de72f3f9340a46487986d08.jpg

2026-03-02 08:00:40 CET

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Can't figure out what this is.

2026-03-01 20:03:28 CET

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I'll let you all know if I discover a proper cup of coffee in this country. Plus electrical outlets.

2026-03-01 19:49:54 CET

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Yes. It's better, but still small.

2026-02-27 12:08:57 CET

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It's fine as a diagnosis, not sure about the details, but it's sort of plausible enough in a general way.
But the proposed solution isn't so convincing.
Buy bitcoin - before buying an asset for investment one ought to have a pretty firm notion that it will increase in value relative to other assets one might hold. Without denying the importance of bitcoin, I'm not sure whether that's a given.
Gold - same kind of thing.
Potatoes - I mean sure as a hobby, and it's a nice skill to have, but one can also buy them at the supermarket.
Wait out the death spiral - will there really be a death spiral, and even if there is one, until when does one have to wait and what advantage does one gain from waiting, and what does one do once it's spiraled out?
So maybe you think I'm just being obtuse and am deliberately misreading a bit of fun rhetoric, and I guess you'd be sort of right. But the point is that, behind the rhetoric, there doesn't really seem to be any real workable prescription here, or is there?

2026-02-27 10:03:03 CET

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There was some discussion with @npub13mj…8hs2 a few weeks ago about a proposal to use "verifiers," i.e. entities whose role it would be to vouch for other pubkeys. This would be done along some dimension of evaluation (e.g. "is human" / "is safe for work" / "is interesting" etc.) that can be defined and declared by each verifier. Users could then adjust their incoming filters (e.g. for replies etc.) to only permit keys that are verified by one of the verifier services the user has chosen to trust.
Another way (which I'm quite partial to) to separate wheat from chaff is to use identities that cost a few dollars. This is one of the beneficial side effects of Inkan's permanent identities - they overlay the nostr protocol with high-quality and indestructible"expensive" identities. Bots can of course also create such identities in principle, but it gets costly very quickly to do so on a large scale. At the very least, an identity whose creation costs money sends a strong signal that one might want to treat it as "serious".
Also, the permanence - i.e. the high confidence that the key pair that secures one's identity will never be compromised and one's followers will never be lost - is an incentive for the identity's owner to develop a high-quality nostr presence over time. This will result in a smaller proportion of accounts having an "ephemeral" feel and a greater proportion becoming real online personas in which people have made a real investment. In that sort of world, online identities can by default be taken seriously, reputations will be more organic, and there will be less need for technological solutions to manage visibility.

2026-02-09 16:55:29 CET

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This is interesting, but it actually doesn't seem to validate my original intuition. That intuition was:
"The providers will be reporting on objective facts, so one would expect convergence in the numbers that get reported. That should then make it less necessary to place special trust in any single one provider."
I think you're saying that the numbers reported by different providers will possibly / likely not converge?
But why is that? The graph crawled from seed pubkey set A may differ from the graph crawled from seed pubkey set B, but as a provider won't you then aggregate the information you have gathered from both crawls?
I imagined that scores / rankings would be calculated based on aggregate information from all crawls across the seed sets that were used.

2026-02-04 00:53:35 CET

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So from that wotathon page, I see what's wanted is a "Web of Trust ecosystem", which will be evaluated based on "functional readiness", "Depth & Innovation", "Interoperability", "Decentralizing Ecosystem Impact", "Documentation & Openness" and "Business Model Sustainability".
That leaves me about as confused as before as to what a "Web of Trust" is in the first place. I wonder how they know what they are supposed to build.
But I should be looking at NIP-85 before I further open my mouth.

2026-02-04 00:02:51 CET

So I'm coming across this talk of a "Web of Trust".
What's the purpose of this? Is there a problem that gets solved by this? Filtering out spam in one's replies?
I can't quite tell whether it's more like a pubkey-relative follow distance concept, or more of an absolute popularity score.
Wanting to be contacted only by people who have a certain degree of "social separation" sounds like a choice someone might want to make. It's not, however, clear why this would lead to higher-quality interactions or a better experience. It's not like the friends of my friends are more interesting people than others. But I guess this should just be a decision that each user can make for themselves.
If it's more like a popularity score, it's of course legitimate to aggregate and disseminate information about what pubkeys have a lot of followers, which ones are muted, etc. But using such information to filter or prioritize whose notes one sees in one's client is another matter. You could argue that it improves the content you see, but you could equally well argue that it degrades it. It seems unfortunate if use of such scoring became a default on nostr, rather than each individual user's deliberate choice.
Maybe there's a simple technical issues that require a "Web of Trust" that I'm not attuned to. Not sure.
#wot #asknostr

2026-01-31 10:54:24 CET

How do people use NIP-46?
What remote signers do you use?
#asknostr

2026-01-17 21:36:03 CET

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Thanks.
I'm also on primal right now ... I guess that's a client as well, unless it's something else.

2026-01-12 04:05:34 CET

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Does vnak allow you to first authenticate to a relay and then get events satisfying the filter from that relay?
I also wasn't able to figure out how to use the original nak with relays requiring authentication -- maybe use "--auth" in combination with "--sec" somehow?

2026-01-12 01:29:39 CET

Trying to understand #nsecbunker and nip-46.
So I think that,in order to control the bunker, you have to have admin credentials for the bunker.
And if these admin credentials get stolen, the thief then controls your private keys, i.e. the ones you deposited inside the bunker.
Is that right, or am I missing something?
I'm just trying to figure out what you have to keep secret when using nsecbunker.