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2026-07-16 07:39:28 UTC

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Unfortunately people never learn... Until we could pay groceries in Sat the banking drama will anyway be there because even if they could get BTCs they very probably found no one who accept them counter services and goods, except maybe at absurd price.
Personally I fear a scenario where people understand finally, only when they are totally broke, so they can't anyway exchange fiat counter BTC, and seen the current trend, it not that unlikely

2026-07-09 08:54:18 UTC

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The EU is ruled by Nazi, only most still fails to understand such a simple historical fact.
As well as most still fail to understand that current "socialist" are as left wing as Hitler, wanting common stuff for the poor, meaning all impoverished citizens, the Hayekian breadcrumbs to avoid revolts, while for them private ownership of anything.
Unfortunately below a certain number of Citizens, slaves allow the dictator to rule. The only possible thing is separation, waiting for the slaves rage when they'll discover that owning nothing will not means being happy, and they'll see others living differently. That will be when their revolt begun, again, against the same ruling philosophy, and maybe this time we can manage to drive them eradicating the plant instead of cutting it and get it back stronger and stronger.

2026-07-08 10:06:54 UTC

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The Trezor is a good FIDO2 key since if break you can recovery anything from the seed, but nothing you can do if the third party you want to interact with do not support them to push you towards apps and biometrics....

2026-07-07 10:09:37 UTC

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A/C coupled with photovoltaics is the best solution to live well, there is a push against it because in homes you can perfectly couple them, in apartments you can't, and the banksters do not want that people realise how the modern tech and time demand personal ownership instead of being owned by some big capital but that's is and it's the tech that define an era.

2026-07-06 12:25:28 UTC

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The market could stay irrational the longer you could possibly stay solvent, people do not understand money on average not private property of immaterial things, so ...

2026-07-06 12:24:11 UTC

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Actually it's not much a personality trait but a will to keep people in the city, because doing do means pushing the 99% to the zero ownership while the few who possess loan everything.
If you are in a city chance are you don't own a home, you like in a flat on rent, you could be impoverished enough to go to goshiwon so being forced to not have a washing machine, but ready made meals, not owning a car, ... Being essentially an economic slave who love see big skyscrapers who are not yours and feel to be a part of something big even if your part is being slave.
That's the why of the push against remote work.

2026-07-06 06:49:16 UTC

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Big tech want anyone on mobile+cloud because they know the value of ownership, so they keep prices off common iron extreme to avoid most could possibly own, to keep them their slaves.
So when it will end? Well probably in many years, because sadly most people do not know the value of ownership

2026-07-05 12:06:36 UTC

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BTC initially flourished thank to the D-company, AlQuaeda etc not because it hurt people but because for their activities they was the firsts outside the cypherpunks to understand the value of a free distributed currency.
Then State actors join. The current bear is Wall Street broken who try to save themselves but it do when some people start to understand the value of a distributed FLOSS currency. It's still to be seen how many will understand and when.

2026-07-05 07:56:50 UTC

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4G could penetrate some water depth, not much though.
Biometrics anyway is needed just for surveillance capitalism, it's the password anyone can see, you can't change, you can anyway loose (for instance for a minor injury). Even the Hollywood PRs who sell it in movies also shows how easy you can get fingerprints, voice, face, ... Also from a dead body, while you can't really milk a password, especially with systems where some form of deniable encryption is possible (meaning you can give a password that seems ok, but it's not/it's trigger some safety mechanism once used).

2026-07-05 07:51:19 UTC

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The problem is the classic knows your enemy. Most people fails to realize that the banksters on one side (politically labelling themselves as "left" while they are Nazi) and big tech on the other (generally labelled right, but they are indeed cleric-fascist) fight for the same power on the same masses, but their agendas aren't much different.
Mandatory logins through big tech serve the purpose to silence anyone they dislike and the end of open internet/open web, so they can control much more the narrative people feel every day.
It's just a part of a bigger scenario where "in 2030 you'll own nothing" meaning they count to own anything to re-create the perfect space they already have in workers of the UK enclosure's time.
Until enough people understand they'll win.

2026-07-05 07:42:20 UTC

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Left and right are labels/tags used to master people, they do not represent political lines. The current "left" are the heirs of those who create Nazism back then. The current right are mostly cleric-fascists not much different then the ISIS Syrian government created with the Timber Sycamore CIA Op.
A cohort of people is "left as the label imply" and another "right as the label imply" but they both have no representative in politics/economics. They both seems unable to unite against a common enemy, the banksters, the British Crow who create the Nazism, Zionism, Fascism, ... Simply to extract wealth from us all.
Until this happen they will win anyway.

2026-07-02 17:25:02 UTC

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As an old unix-er, with limited crypto knowledge, but good enough in tech, I'm curious about BCHNostr: I know the BTC/BCH past fork, but AFAIK lighting network, at the base of zaps, is BTC, not BCH. Do BCH have made it's own kind-of layers? How many TPS could BCH sustain now/which average fees if not?

2026-07-02 17:20:19 UTC

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A very good law, I hope some equivalent here in the EU, and some to remove limits to photovoltaic+storage home setups, that should not need anymore any municipal approval, often refused for personal aesthetic preference of some officer...

2026-06-30 16:26:14 UTC

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Absolutely, but unfortunately it's a long journey, painfully long.
Just a small personal story: thanks to remote work I've left the city for the mountains building a new home. Even done friends and family member call me fool because "you know remote work is not real work, it can't be", "with all the homes already there it's a waste of money building something new" etc. After 11 years, some have visited me in nearly all seasons, having felt the comfort, seen my bills compared to theirs, and well... They still think remote work is a joke, ah you don't really need aircons, it's just modern fashion, ...

2026-06-29 20:16:59 UTC

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EU is a mentally old country, where us who love evolving are locked by flocks of luddites. Such reactionary bipeds pretend A/C is not needed, it's even bad for health, you should learn to suffer, ... Do their best to avoid aircon.
There is no cure, just natural selection and time, newer generations are less fool, but they still have to learn to kick others from behind.

2026-06-29 16:33:51 UTC

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Sorry how many

2026-06-29 16:33:35 UTC

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Si già many TPS are normal today?

2026-06-29 12:26:59 UTC

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The problem is that the value of a currency isn't in the coin itself but in the market that uses it; for now, BTC is being used, and that gives it value, but it's not used enough, so there's still a constant need for a currency exchange which, by going through the fiat world, cancels out the advantages of BTC, the case of Francesca Albanese, like Wikileaks, shows this clearly. Until even the supermarket accepts BTC, this problem will persist.

2026-06-28 17:31:23 UTC

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AFAIK Bitcoin cash have maximum 200TPS in good moment, how could it possibly scale? Lightning have many issues but have potentially million of TPS. What I miss?

2026-06-27 18:36:14 UTC

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Me personally as a relatively old unix-er/emacs-er, with enough knowledge to understand but not really active in crypto development, a casual ex high school geek back then having minded something but then nearly nothing more, I mainly complaint the lack of design and documents. I see here things popping up without docs, without public discussions on the project, something alien to FLOSS and so I find onboarding not easier even with a significant baggage of knowledge and theory.
I discover Nostr on HN, i've deployed my really two hours later and yet I still have to learn much because nothing seems documented and many projects are just code dump like some corps do for Open Source Enterprise stuff.

2026-06-26 09:35:41 UTC

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In that case choose anyway at least south and west orientation, if you plan mostly direct usage (little to no storage) then prefer a classic string inverter, micro cut much on peak power, and DC inverters are less efficient. But consider anyway that even a small storage means you can keep your system running also in case of a blackout, which might be very valuable not only now but in the future as grids are more and more strained and so unstable

2026-06-26 07:11:41 UTC

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Personally, I'd recommend well over 6kWp. I've had a 5kWp/8kWh single-string south-facing setup for 6 years, and in the evening the air conditioning eats through the battery because there's still Sun, but it's too far west to reach the south panels. I'm expanding it for that reason too; I mainly need the power for the winters here (Alps) with few daylight hours, but even in sunny places, if the nights are hot and you need a/c at night, well... you need enough power to recharge about twenty kWh (from a battery with at least 30kWh capacity) on top of your daytime self-consumption.

2026-06-26 07:03:44 UTC

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Hum, maybe that's a client thing...

2026-06-26 07:02:09 UTC

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Bhe è comunque un evento! La rete cresce :)

2026-06-25 21:57:48 UTC

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Using a desktop instead of mobile will be of help. Pasting text then delete anything except v=... or even better https://youtu.be/... where ... is the video ID would be of help even if needy long and definitively easy to automate

2026-06-25 13:19:18 UTC

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Consider that the number of people using them are also different

2026-06-24 18:08:29 UTC

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Oh, una zeneize di Nostr ! Belin ma alua stemmu crescendo davvero!

2026-06-24 08:36:03 UTC

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Yes, occasionally

2026-06-22 18:33:52 UTC

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People like to be slave, to avoid thinking, taking care of anything, modern dumb terminals like cloud+mobile mainframe+dumb terminals, offer that. GAFAM like this behaviour as well.

2026-06-22 12:44:40 UTC

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One go, another City actor came...

2026-06-21 18:21:59 UTC

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What? Questi sono pezzi di Firenze? Si quanti decenni fa?

2026-06-21 12:13:21 UTC

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It's just the nth push towards biometry...
BTW see both relevant
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-019-08182-z
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256010598_Fingerprint_Recognition_with_Embedded_Cameras_on_Mobile_Phones

2026-06-20 10:41:37 UTC

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People are flock animals, only a small percentage is rational, flock animals tend to prefer being part of the largest flock. Some diverge a bit but lacking knowledge and rationality they fall for some gurus. Only for know enough to remain centered.
That's the main issue... The real obstacle for a modern society.

2026-06-19 11:42:02 UTC

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There is an issue for lightning network though: AFAIK there is no separate hw (offline) signer, like the SeedSigner, but for obviously hot lightning wallets normally used on mobile.
As a result you still put your seed phrase for the limited lightning money on something e can't trust.

2026-06-19 11:37:18 UTC

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The first issue is that there are no topics not groups, a Reddit/Lemmy UI, would be much more helpful to attire people.
Second a unified UI, with private chat and VoIP, mail like messages and personal blog as a long form profile page...

2026-06-19 11:34:33 UTC

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All to avoid distributed computing in private homes, sheds etc with photovoltaics and storage etc.
All to be sovereign on others, who must own nothing and pretend to be happy...

2026-06-19 11:30:45 UTC

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Curious, the company is Dutch, the restrictions are off the USA government and apparently they compliant that are not accepted in the rest of the world...

2026-06-19 08:25:15 UTC

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Actually anyone is supposed (and maybe denied) to run their own relay so like in the nearly forgotten Usenet, groups keeps flowing, messages keep flowing, but individuals decide what to host, what to plonk (ban).
This is part of any large agorà, together with personal scoring, because when a gazillion of human write separate what you want is needed, you can't read thousands of messages.
The issue then lay just in IT ignorance where most do not run their own relay, and so Nostr network is divided in some large hub and many marginal relays.
Lightning network have a similar issue: running a personal node is hard so most don't and live on someone else computer.
If you don't self-host you can't be sovereign

2026-06-19 08:17:54 UTC

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Actually politicians are just PRs of banks, banksters are the government

2026-06-18 12:37:02 UTC

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I would be very careful about taking certain stories as gospel; they may or may not be true, but throughout history, most of the horrific crimes recounted by one side against another have almost always turned out to be completely fabricated or at least wildly exaggerated. Someone noticed this and observed, "kill 100 children and the world will be against you, kill 100 million and no one will say a thing because they won't believe it even in the face of evidence". The point is that there are limits to what can be known, and well, I take certain news with a pinch of salt.
In the UK, the ongoing social unrest isn't due to what the genuine participants (meaning those who aren't paid agitators) themselves believe, but simply to the draining of wealth towards the City, which has turned the UK into a third-world country for most people (not that they were rich in the past, it's not Italy, but they were certainly much less worse off at many points in history).
In the UK, British souls have always been at odds with Celtic ones, the Nazi kleptocracy at odds with the entire populace, and so on; in times of prosperity, everything is dormant because most people have full bellies and a roof over their heads, but in times of hardship, everything is amplified.
In particular, today there is a gloves-off fight between the US clerico-fascists and the demon-Nazis based in the City. Just as the BLM protests were likely pushed (not created; the underlying malaise is necessary for them to happen, but amplified and nurtured) by the demon-Nazis, it is likely that the current trends in the UK are being amplified by the clerico-fascists. In the meantime, the UK moves further into economic collapse for the majority while they are busy discussing other things; it generates World War III by plundering the EU with high-treason complicit governments, and the people think about other things, now it's Pakistani gangs, now it's the yacht seen being driven off with warning shots from a Russian naval unit. Anything to avoid talking about the fiscal robbery, the economic collapse, etc., of the masses.
I would focus on this. Stories of extreme youth distress are very common in countries with high inheritance theft, known as tax, like the UK, France, Belgium, and Spain, unlike Scandinavia, Italy, the Czech Republic, and others that either don't steal or steal very little. These are common stories in "collectivist" societies where the value of the family is diluted compared to that of society specifically to better rob the masses.
Meanwhile, I also suggest thinking about what difference there might be between the poor Pakistani criminal and the likes of Epstein, who does the same thing but with style. Which of the two makes more headlines? Which one is making more headlines right now? Why... In essence, they seem very similar to me on a substantive level for the victims. And yet, I didn't see much in the way of "protests" for the Epstein case in the streets...

2026-06-18 10:40:43 UTC

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I agree, but most are anyway mobile-tied. Me personally I'm tied for public car charge when on the go and I fear public sector evolution who might eventually mandate without explicitly telling the mobile for taxes etc pushing a mobile-only "digital identity" for instance.
Banks have already almost done that pushing their crapplications... And these days you can't live without a bank in most of the Western world

2026-06-17 20:01:19 UTC

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Unfortunately too many choose the mobile side ignoring that they are closed platforms who can't be free anyway.
Desktop development is essentially dead, web is the sole "desktop" remaining part (beside Emacs etc for development of course)

2026-06-17 17:35:02 UTC

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We really need open source hardware period, not just for specific usages!

2026-06-15 21:12:38 UTC

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It's something already observed https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/1116779/ai-can-do-a-better-job-of-persuading-people-than-we-do/ implying https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/ and finally https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00906-0
That's one of the main reason why GAFAM are still massively financed by States...

2026-06-15 15:39:08 UTC

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Not a name I choose, they decide to name their project out of a kind of sheep from South America...

2026-06-15 15:37:59 UTC

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Vikunja is a FLOSS popular task manager, featuring also a Kanboard, multiple users etc

2026-06-15 15:36:59 UTC

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It's hard because government regulate people's quarrels, so they need to been able to size money from a citizen and give them to another. Tribunals can't operate without such power.
It's still possible though to limit government power on citizens will on scale, like a consensus protocol where the government can't avoid asking not can't ignore the citizens response. This is the best way we have to develop a substantial democracy, but we need a big enough Demos, who are not the people at a whole but just the active part of them in a society. Actually the Demos is dramatically reduced

2026-06-15 15:32:20 UTC

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Why not a Vikunja backend to help self hosting?

2026-06-15 15:30:25 UTC

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Exactly

2026-06-15 15:29:53 UTC

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Actually are not the politician but big tech who want a login for anything with the excuse of child protection. They want it since they are big enough to harvest enough for their LLMs, and they do want to avoid the improbable possibility of a community made model on open data. They do want to own data but they do not want anything in public hands.
That's why the current expensive hardware push and mandatory logins. To push people on cloud+mobile, remotely handled platforms you can't own, and to deprive people of the information.
Unfortunately most still have to figure this move...

2026-06-15 13:05:56 UTC

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I dream do but... Not much optimistic in that regard, mostly because most people have next-to-zero IT knowledge so, simply do not know alternative exists and economic giants do their best to keep people in such state.
So I surely expect a revolt at a certain point, but asking for the wrong targets...

2026-06-15 11:46:08 UTC

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True but most people seems mobile-tied, against self hosting, so create something more desktop-centered seems not in fashion

2026-06-15 11:43:54 UTC

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Self hosting have no reasons to be that expensive, if sooner giants do not want to push people out of it. You can host most common services for 500€ / 880kSAT if some times ago.
When this happen hw OEMs decide for price spikes till today, exactly to keep most out of digital sovereignty. The plot is the very same since the PARC.

2026-06-15 10:22:55 UTC

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Opportunity for what? Owning smart-contacts who can be freeze at any time by a private company? No thanks.

2026-06-14 18:53:40 UTC

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The issue is that in the west to keep the kleptocrats safe we cease to innovate decades ago, so currently we are nearly behind China...

2026-06-14 18:51:34 UTC

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I'm an old (well not that old but) unix-er/emacs-er so I have a homeserver, my first step in Nostr after reading about it in HN was deploy my relay :)
I still have to make my own Lightning node integrated with Nostr and I use Wisp on mobile because it's really nice, but that will came to!
Honestly IMVHO to get Nostr spread homeservers are needed with coturn as well for VoIP and offer not much a Twitter clone and a galaxy of apps but a unified social communications for all, meaning chat (private and public), VoIP, blog-alike, Reddit/Lemmy-alike and the rest already there.
These days most even if completely IT-ignorant have realised the power of integration, Nostr could offer that, but it's not still there

2026-06-14 18:32:42 UTC

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Very nice! But to be useful need a tor setup (or something else, not for pseudo-anonimity but for NAT traversal) built in.
Without it you can just operate in LAN or localhost...
Unfortunately mobile devices are made only for consumption and spying on users, they can't be sovereign, and that's why we need home servers and desktop...

2026-06-13 10:37:44 UTC

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I only know Gossip, who is a bit a monster unfortunately...

2026-06-12 14:36:48 UTC

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Bluetooth is way too limited in range for a countryside usage, LoRa it's much more interested for such usage but if course you can't use smartphone iron alone for that.
Bitchat honestly seems more a tool useful for disposable soldiers by CIA to drive protesters in third party countries they want to capture than something really usable for mesh comms...

2026-06-11 13:14:07 UTC

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Digital IDs actually are needed, the issue is which kind of IDs a State choose.
A distributed digital IDs with keys in a smart card, FLOSS on open hardware is good, a centrally managed one by private parties is just a suicide.
But in a digitalised world we need digital IDs anyway. Digital euro could actually be a good idea: central bank digital currency are the sole "real fiat money" as opposite to fractional reserve scriptural bank money, banks and fintech are worse than central banks for many aspects. Again the issue here is which kind of tech is chosen. In fiat term is better to depend on a central bank under the State then on private ones.

2026-06-11 13:06:43 UTC

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Which UK government? The substantial one (i.e the City) or just the formal one?

2026-06-10 09:32:28 UTC

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Unfortunately IMVHO there are no usable, reasonably free mobile solutions, that's why I'm sick to desktop as much as I can.
It's a more complex topic though because the main point is that a modern society need remote work, so desktops, homes with semi-autonomous power, sheds, not mobile to continuously moving between big buildings in dense areas. The gig economy need the very contrary: to push people owning nothing they need dense cities, large buildings, collective transport and so on, but that's against current tech evolution, so it will fail with much pain.

2026-06-10 07:59:33 UTC

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Because it run on proprietary SoCs. Of course Intel or AMD platforms are not free as well but at least they are open platform.
Beside smartphones are made to control and milk users, while desktops are still for produce things

2026-06-10 07:55:57 UTC

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Until the network holds, people could came.
Nostr IMVHO lack a single package who gives users:
- a relay, a complete one, for notes, long form as a blog, chat, blossom, ..., topics support to be a forum as well, Including a web client to do so in the same package
- a turn&co service and WebRTC for VoIP
- tor support not much for anonymity but for NAT traversal so anyone can really self host with a single deploy
This would capture FLOSS Devs, who are in general the IT support of their family and friends and so with them they can create a minimal critical mass of users to be a community active enough.

2026-06-10 07:49:03 UTC

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You can be free only on free iron, not much exists nowadays with sufficient horsepower, but at least PCs could be free enough.
Mobile devices can't, even by law (mandatory secret baseband), so well... Do not consider Graphene as a really free place!
A GNU/Linux distro could be considered a bit yours but not else.

2026-06-09 14:19:04 UTC

https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/ A cypherpunk’s library
A collection of good public-domain reads. Nothing for sale, nothing to take down.

2026-06-07 16:34:53 UTC

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Not mine, I have no TV... Not smart, not dumb...

2026-06-07 14:30:18 UTC

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Nostr is not divided by topics like Usenet newsgroups, that's IMVHO one of the reason it haven't taken off much.
Another is the lack of a unified app:
- relay
- client
- chat equivalent
- mail equivalent
- VoIP (audio and video)
Haven is good integrating some functions but still not enough, the same is for current Nostr clients.

2026-06-07 14:26:11 UTC

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EU is run by banks, France specifically by the Rothschild, nothing unexpected then...
Actually there are some issues for Bitcoin as a common currency, but it's perfectly normal that the Nazi banksters who published in 2019 "Banking disrupted?" as a Geneva report, now trying to launch stable coins as bank money and CBDC go against things they can't control.

2026-06-07 14:20:29 UTC

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*mean* inflation, of course :)
Like someone who eat two chickens and another zero and the average day they have eaten one chicken each...

2026-06-05 13:46:20 UTC

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Censorship must be personal. Anyone choose for himself.

2026-05-31 16:36:04 UTC

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I second this. Lemmy style (Reddit clone) communities/groups are what still work, plus VoIP/chat for family&friends.
The unified UI is the future, so the unified self-hosted app for blog, notes, chat, ... In a single package.

2026-05-29 14:56:19 UTC

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Really cold wallet, with Shamir seed phrases, some of them in some banks, it's hard in this case trying a wrench attack and nothing happen if someone in the bank look at your partial seed

2026-05-29 14:33:29 UTC

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The issue is not bad UI but incomplete packages: Nostr could be the universal communication network; forum-like discussions, X-like short post, blog, mail-like private messages, chat, VoIP. Nostr is unknown to most, so to start with a decent user base we need FLOSS world. People who want to run their own relays, inviting friends for personal comms like IRC, XMPP, Matrix, their personal website, ... Their is no such relay who di that with a client as well. Having this is the first step to seed the network. Next a companion complete mobile app (Wisp is excellent, but only for current most popular Nostr usage, X-like posts). This will bring people in, FLOSS nerds, their friends, people tired of censorship, age verification and so on.
Without such integration who chose an X-like client/project with a tiny userbase? To be free but being unable to interact with most of his contacts?

2026-04-19 19:06:07 UTC

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Any plan to make Wisp a web app, maybe in MOAR? A complete Nostr in a single application?

2026-04-11 12:28:23 UTC

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Casually on HN, some time ago

2026-04-11 10:31:17 UTC

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The issue with Nostr is in UI terms:
- people like Reddit because they discuss topics
- people like Twitter to follow others
- people like blogs to read things
All the three works on text and so could be on Nostr, but so far no complete UI, a single app you can deploy for relay and client together offer the 3 above united while anything is already here.
Adding also audio/video chat like XMPP but with Nostr identities and just Coturn aside would be a killer feature but so far what's there is a bit broken. To spread people needed to convince are nerds, they will bring others.

2026-03-20 14:48:57 UTC

Just to say:
- https://news.ki.se/high-meat-consumption-linked-to-lower-dementia-risk-in-genetic-risk-group
- https://news.mcmaster.ca/researchers-find-link-between-ultra-processed-foods-and-infertility-in-u-s-women/

2026-03-20 14:48:07 UTC

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Well, most people struggle to grasp the concept of digital private property; they understand what it means to own a pair of shoes, but they don't get what it means in digital because they see a screen and, to them, what they're looking at is just there, on the screen in their hand, not coming from someone else's servers.
This simple phenomenon makes it easy to set up certain business models and, besides, the shift towards cloud+mobile, essentially modern mainframes + dumb terminals, serves perfectly to deny the average person "the power of the desktop" and, with it, personal ownership.

2026-03-18 23:46:17 UTC

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/ the real point and scandal is not FBI who buy, but those who sell, who already possess such data...

2026-03-14 08:57:37 UTC

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You need to define what being a sysadmin means. Imagine a distro like Umbrel, Start9, Univention, etc essentially a distro that serves a web app with a series of "pre-configured" services by default. Imagine it's not based on obsolete distros like Debian, but on declarative distros like NixOS, where devs don't fork but simply maintain the config with every update, giving users something that practically never breaks between releases.
Being a sysadmin in this case means knowing how to deploy a distro on a home server, basically a generic desktop computer recycled for this purpose, following a fairly trivial wizard, and using the services. If something goes wrong, there's the community to ask for a hand maybe with Nostr/WoT as comms and social score backbone + economic model behind.
The skills you need cut across every discipline; it's IT knowledge that even a greengrocer needs to have today.
The problem is that today's devs don't understand this; it's not their world because they haven't experienced real FLOSS. They were just born inside some giant company, using its services, without knowing anything else. This is why there's been a push to eliminate or marginalise Ops, and today, with LLMs, they're trying to marginalise devs, just as doctors are being marginalised while glorifying nurses, as "paramedics" etc. In other words, anyone with PERSONAL ability and PERSONAL culture is being crushed, because through these they build their PRIVATE property and aren't just a number, a stereotypical Ford-model worker to be managed on an assembly line, but a capable individual who stands on their own two feet.
You have every right, then, to complain about the state of complication rather than the complexity of modern software, but you also have the need to know just enough to be sovereign in society in your time. Otherwise, well, you can only be a slave, and even if that doesn't sound pleasant described so bluntly, it's necessary to digest it and choose.

2026-03-14 08:45:43 UTC

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Very true, but how many people actually have a home server? Because that’s the prerequisite we should all have, just as we should all have a domain name, IPv6 with a global per host, and a basic IT literacy that spans every discipline, yet is lacking in almost every discipline, often including PhDs in CS and CE.
Nowadays we write everything on computers, except perhaps for a few notes, but most people don't know how to typeset a decent document, they don't know how to generate a graph, do basic maths, or draw in a simple CAD or freehand style. In other words, most are incapable of communicating their thoughts using the tools of their time at the minimum level necessary to be defined as an "intellectual" or a "cultured person".
On the Bitcoin side, there's also a software problem: we need a single, trivial-to-deploy application that does everything, modular if you like, but unified and well-documented. Not Bitcoin Core and LND and Alby Hub and Zeus... we need to be able to say, "Want your own bank? Right, go install ... | cargo build ... | uv install ... and you've already got what you need; nix develop if you want, or check your distro's package manager, you don't need anything else. If you want, put NGINX in front of it, but it's not necessary, you're up and running with just this app. Go to [::1]:12345 and you've got the web UI with your on-chain addresses, you create a Lightning channel on the fly, manage its liquidity, and you've also got the documentation, links to mobile Lightning wallets, logs, etc. You also find a textual dump of the config to makes anything easy reproducible. You don't need anything other than to study this single, cross-platform, well-documented project". That’s how you spread it to the masses; as it stands today, it's beyond the level of effort even most nerds are willing to put in, so people end up on CExs and living on someone else's services.
There's Umbrel, Start9, etc which is good, but it's still not enough and it's lagging behind because the people behind these distros are stuck in a bygone era without realising it; they don't offer a solid enough foundation for the end user.

2026-03-11 09:27:44 UTC

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A chopping board, cut at a sharp angle to get a useful shape and a good final surface, starting with a height of about 7cm using a chainsaw. Then, place it on a workbench and secure it by screwing it into the side. Set up two flat guides at the necessary height, and place a long enough board across them with a router mounted on top; use this to plane the rock-hard wood to a "mirror" finish. Once one side is done, flip it over and do the second. Use a chisel or the router itself to create a drip groove that ends in a drain at one end of the "ellipse".
Cut as shown in the photo, there isn't much else they can do. If you want, you can use wood carving discs (grinder discs, made like wood rasps for carving, dangerous to use, so be careful) to shape other things, for example, a stylised fruit bowl to be decorated later with a pyrography pen or chisel, but this requires much more skill than the chopping board and the practical daily use isn't great.
If there's still a long piece left and you like polenta, you can make a classic Italian "polenta stick", literally a stick about 80-90cm long, with a diameter that's comfortable to hold and a wider, flattened end. But carving it from a log requires a certain level of skill; you can even do it without a lathe by starting the cut with a chainsaw and then setting up a "DIY lathe" using a drill and a router. It's a long, frustrating job for a result that doesn't make much sense anymore now that we have self-stirring pots for polenta, but it can be done, just like you can make large kitchen spoons.

2026-03-10 07:31:11 UTC

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Nowadays, most people need a programmer, but big companies, just as they get rid of doctors to make way for less competent and therefore more docile paramedics, are looking for code monkeys. In the same way, sysadmins have largely been phased out in an attempt to have people who are easier to boss around. The result is that we no longer have anything new, and the number of constant problems is skyrocketing.

2026-03-09 22:17:28 UTC

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Being technically decentralised doesn't make it practically so. The Web is technically a hypertext, running on a partially interconnected mesh network, yet nowadays the bulk of traffic flows between a handful of giant hubs, to the point where "marginal" social networks stay that way simply due to a lack of critical mass, and not having an account on some giant's servers is a communication problem for many. We have, and consider normal, major communication systems that only talk to themselves. XMPP is decentralised by design, yet when it was popular, Google was the main player and its changes were adopted even if they were unsuitable for most, simply because they were needed to interoperate with it. When Google abandoned it, the users vanished and XMPP essentially died, having become irrelevant.
To put it another way, yes, Nostr is decentralised by design, but this peculiar design makes it practically centralised, and it is, or rather will be in the future if it succeeds, a problem. Just see Primal as an example.

2026-03-09 15:04:32 UTC

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I casually discover it :)
Not in a rush, I don't know how to contribute but I curiously observe hoping for a good progress because Nostr IMO have much potential, but lack some aspects to really succeed and loosing a potential success for just some issues well... It's a waste...

2026-03-09 15:02:34 UTC

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The problem I see is that messages aren't "evenly spread across the network" but are concentrated on a few relays, and it even happens that some replies only reach certain relays. The result is centralisation on the most popular relays.
The solution I see is the classic DHT, basically algorithmically spreading content across every node in the network, which will have storage and bandwidth quotas in its parameters. This leaves the administrator free to reject certain content or keep some in full, but fundamentally every message is split in chunks and some chunks are automatically spread across nodes. Historical examples include Usenet on one hand, as a decentralised paradigm, and eMule/KAD or ZeroNet for the distributed one.
The solution I see for further improvement is to not have "Nostr client only", but client+relay in a single package, with potential support for Tor or ZeroNet or something similar for those behind a NAT. Those with an exposed host can provide a way to punch through holes in NAT for those who don't, but basically every client is also a relay and blossom server.
I hope that's clearer now, and I don't see any bullshit or rudeness in what I'm writing. Meanwhile, as a fairly new user curious about Nostr and from the old-school *nix background, I see a tense community that's not very interested in the rest of the world, which isn't a good thing for achieving success.

2026-03-09 12:19:23 UTC

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I'm desktop (nearly) only... When on the go I'll try but it's a rare use. Most of the time (being full-remote worker) I'm on my desktop and since on NixOS I have only Gossip (broken since months) I tend to use web clients.
But I'd really dream of a wisp web built-in the MOAR :)

2026-03-09 12:14:39 UTC

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Idem, significa che anche su Nostr non siamo così marginali :)
Si, io in genere a chi scrive in inglese rispondo in inglese semplicemente perché non so qualche sia la madrelingua della controparte e ad oggi avendo vinto loro l'ultima guerra mondiale l'inglese è la lingua franca come prima lo era il francese...

2026-03-09 12:13:16 UTC

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Most users simply install a client with a set of pre-defined relays, those who don't anyway want got messages where there are the most crowds... If you are telling that's not a Nostr rule "you have to follow" that's definitively true, but what happen is an actual centralisation.

2026-03-08 17:55:44 UTC

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Contento di rispondere in Italiano :)
pesa questo: serve, in una fase iniziale, pesa bene questo inciso, puntare al bipede medio, quello che di IT sa nulla, installa l'app se il nome/lo screenshot lo convince e in 5" di prova decide se restare o mollare? Per me no. I dev correnti però puntano a questa demografia, più o meno consapevolmente.
Per me in una fase iniziale serve prendere "il linuxaro medio", il nerd, che ha un serverino domestico, spesso un modesto raspi o due, che sa qualcosa ma non oltre quel qualcosa, quindi qualcuno che vuole un'app unica, go get-abile, cargo build-abile, pip-abile, o già nei pacchetti della distro di turno, unica e sola, che faccia tutto. Non vuole scegliere un relay, scegliere un client, trovare che non c'è 'no straccio di documentazione su come configurare opportunamente il relay, che qui manca un server blossom, che li manca un filtraggio dello spam, che laggiù manca il supporto alla chat, ... poi vedere che gli serve coturn per poter aver l'audio, ... vuole un singolo pacchetto, che sia app desktop o webapp da servire via NGINX non importa, ma che sia unico e faccia tutto, client, relay, server blossom, chat, ICE/TURN/STUN ecc ecc ecc. Se c'è questo e vede che è carino, visivamente va bene come andrebbe XMPP/Matrix, ma qui si fa anche il blogghino personale, c'è pure la possibilità di far un ecommerce banale con gli zap, ma nessun obbligo di farlo beh allora quel singolo nerd che prova si tira dietro alcuni amici ed alcuni parenti e dopo un po' questi su scala raggiungono la massa critica necessaria a diventare anche pronti per l'utente-utonto.
Questo manca. Non solo in termini software ma proprio in termini di comprensione e interesse da parte dei dev. Nostr è pieno di progetti confezionati al volo e abbandonati, gente cordiale, che ha voglia di fare, ma non ha una visione d'insieme ed è abituata al modello commerciale delle megacorps dove non c'è il problema del lancio di qualcosa perché sono le PR che lo fanno, non i dev. Dove c'è un modello di rapporto "col cliente" ben diverso.
Cosa fa di buono Nostr?
- ha capito che il punto è comunicare testo, non html, testo semplice, al massimo MD o org-mode, tutto qui, il grosso della nostra informazione è testo dalle leggi agli sms passando per libri, giornali e post. Nostr offre comunicazione testuale come la offriva Usenet, ma con una UI assai più libera e accattivante. Come Usenet supporta anche contenuti multimediali, in maniera più efficiente dei gruppi binari. Supporta post brevi, cui manca una UI stile Lemmy/Reddit per aver successo, la rubrica distribuita modello Facebook/LinkedIn (questa c'è già), post lunghi (blog/siti personali), stanno più o meno arrivando le chat con anche audio e video
- ha anche un modello economico, non valido per i relay, valido per fare un web economico
Cosa manca:
- l'app unica, che sia client+server e che vuoi via Tor, vuoi via altro come ZeroNet, la vecchia rete KAD/eMule, ... permetta visibilità anche al nerd medio senza un nome a dominio, dietro NAT
- un design coerente di questa con un minimo di documentazione per il setup e l'uso
Senza questi non si andrà lontano. Ai margini il modello di decentralizzazione dei relay sovrani finisce come vuole la teoria delle reti in pochi grandi hub, quindi la decentralizzazione teorica salta, splittare e spargere l'informazione come faceva KAD/DHT in genere, IPFS, lasciando agli utenti giusto la scelta di pinnare contenuti "questi li vogliamo interi sul nostro ferro" e bannarne alcuni marcati esplicitamente "questi non li vogliamo" mentre il resto è solo una quantità massima di storage e banda a disposizione della rete, beh, senza questo non è vera decentralizzazione, si finisce con pochi giganti e tanti relay ignoti.

2026-03-08 17:40:50 UTC

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Well... Consider that Nostr is not really decentralized. The relay model means some large hub and many relays unseen by most, so actual substantial centralization without imposing it formally.
Nostr is awesome for many reasons, but it's not really decentralized. Largely ignoring both the ZeroNet failure lesson, the Usenet success lesson and the eMule/KAD model. If this not change Nostr will remain marginal unfortunately.

2026-03-08 08:01:33 UTC

https://realinvestmentadvice.com/resources/blog/usd-stable-coins-and-the-rebasement-of-the-us-dollar/ this article have a valid point: as long as people do not accept sat for common shopping BTCs are a game for giants not for retailers. Being tied to fiat for the last mile means being tied to fiat period.
That's the damn issue.

2026-03-08 07:59:49 UTC

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I dream a realistic usage over LoRa (BT is not usable for such purposes, since it's range is way too short geographically) but so far it's only a dream, there is way too little bandwidth for "a parallele P2P mesh internet"...

2026-03-07 19:08:52 UTC

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I have the same lack of trust in private banks and central banks, so well... For me a CBDC it's not worse than using a Visa. The issue with BTCs it's where I can spend: most merchants around me do not accept SATs and using crypto cards is using Visa/Mastercard so not much safer.
That's the damn real issue: so far crypto cards works well, we can spend vintage SATs with peace of mind. BUT there's no guarantee this will last, and once you take away Visa/Mastercard, until the majority of shops accept native SATs, even having 100k BTC isn't unfortunately going to save you. It's fine for sovereign states selling oil, other raw materials, or industrial products, but for the average person who just wants to live their life, buying the food they need, maybe a car and so on, it's a massive problem.
As long as you have to go through fiat currency one way or another, your freedom, even if it's slightly greater (you have "your bank safe and sound"), is still limited.

2026-03-07 18:56:25 UTC

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That's a broader problem in Nostr design: clients need to be relays too in a single app, so we don't end up with such massive imbalances between giant relays and tiny ones. Otherwise, Nostr will be decentralised in name only; in practice, it'll be just like XMPP, which was popular as long as Google Messenger (I can't remember the exact name) used it, and then pretty much vanished once they stopped.
Unfortunately, I fear there's no real desire to understand how to structure a truly decentralised network. We do need entities to help with NAT traversal, absolutely, because many people are behind NAT, but then clients should simply have a default setting for storage and bandwidth available to the network being relays as well. We could have WoT filtering if we want, or explicit blocking of someone's content (even using DBACL and the like) if we want, but the rest should be decided algorithmically and spread out. Evolving towards a handful of major hubs while the rest of the relays remain obscure isn't decentralisation, it's the death from the start.
At some point, some big relay will be bought out by some who want to censor; most people will stay there anyway because that's where the bulk of other humans are, and you'll get the same effect we're seeing with Reddit compared to Lemmy.

2026-03-07 08:54:18 UTC

https://virginiabusiness.com/blackrock-limits-withdrawals-private-credit-fund/ another quake in finance, BlackRock limit withdrawals from it's HPS Corporate Lending Fund (26bn), Blackstone forced to inject 400M to avoid the crac. Others private equities suffer as well (Blue Owl Capital, KKR, Carlyle Group, Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, TPG Inc etc).
After REITs now the "golden haven" of private credit prove to be not a haven at all...

2026-03-06 21:36:15 UTC

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Probably very true, but also the BTC entry barrier (to be sovereign) it's not that good, especially for Lightning. We have a certain cohort of power users who understand the risk of depending on others, but when they see how much they need to study and try to setup "their own bank" at home they give up.
These power users are needed to attract others. Apps on someone else systems might work in some third world countries who are anyway largely better then anything else, but not in developed countries...
Umbrel/Start9 are good, but marginal, BTCPay Server is complex, a simple unique "app" easy to deploy on GNU/Linux homeservers, easy to administer declaratively and via a webui it's largely missing. In the west still nearly nobody had real baking issues so they are not much interesting to change without such an easy and sovereign entry barrier. Too many abandoned projects, too little docs, so many scam scary many. Those who enter years ago when "entering" means just few fiat for many BTC takes the risk easily, now with current exchange rates things are different.

2026-03-06 08:55:17 UTC

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To clean things up, we need a different barrier to entry: we need a decentralised Nostr that's usable by newbies with a bit minimal technical skills straight out of the box. In other words, not a client for someone else's services (relay), but a single application that connects locally to a network, bypassing NAT as best it can, acting as both client and server (relay). The user shouldn't have to worry about relay lists, only about how much storage and bandwidth they're willing to give to the network.
This is what made eMule and KAD so successful, and it's exactly what we need today, from file sharing to sharing text-based information in a new web that's no longer client-server or heavily dependent on browsers.
I fear, however, that many modern devs don't understand or even know this model, having been born and raised on the broken IT of Big Tech. Consequently, they can't work in a world that's unknown to them because, even with all the right skills, they still lack the awareness of a different model, its necessity, and the opportunity it presents.

2026-03-05 07:55:25 UTC

Toward the Org Mode future: distributed notebooks: https://chrismaiorana.com/org-mode-notes-publishing/
I dream org-mode integrate Nostr and vice versa, meaning Nostr client (Emacs included) could render org-mode (maybe 200ok.ch lib could help) to really makes the new web of information, people, the new Usenet, (re)born.