vinney...axkl

WoT/DCoSL R&D with https://brainstorm.world

- Pet project: https://catallax.network - decentralized labor/bounty protocol. specific use case for open source grants and crowdfunding at https://grantless.org
- Order print books with bitcoin! https://whitepaperbooks.com
- Convert web pages to nostr longform posts: https://github.com/vcavallo/ReadToRelay

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spatia-arcana.com

nostr.cloud.vinney.xyz

damus.io

eden.nostr.land

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2026-09-01 00:31:35 UTC

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why would i expect a random identity to be trusted by people who trust me, barring me signalling in some way that it's connected to me?
..well, i could follow it myself.. which _would_ bump its credibility among people who trust me already. this seems exactly right to me.
a "legitimate" new user should pretty quickly get close to my personal web of trust, if that new user is acting in such a way that my network appreciates. and if they're not acting in a way i appreciate, then they're nearly indistinguishable from spam, or something like it. which is exactly what we're trying to avoid, no?
besides, i could always just disable my wot temporarily, and go right back to the state we're in now - and i'd see that new user.
i really can't understand the problem here..

2026-09-01 00:26:10 UTC

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exactly

2026-08-31 19:22:36 UTC

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subjective WoT - from your point of view and under your control - will do the opposite of kill nostr. it solves all the problems in this thread with no downside (since you can always choose to not use it or adjust it at will; you are the center of your own trust)
what do you think is dangerous about WoT?

2026-08-30 14:51:29 UTC

so the AI companies' proposed solution to dangerous use of their product is for everyone to use their product more, defensively. got it.
i'm not even saying they're necessarily wrong, just.. weird times. everyone saw it coming, too.
https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense/

2026-08-30 14:46:54 UTC

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my only experience with a torque wrench is this one big sucker i use once or twice a year to apply just the rght amount of torque to lawnmower blade nuts.
the click is very satisfying

2026-08-29 19:38:45 UTC

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what the heck are the setup steps like...? is thin just a cloth?

2026-08-27 01:53:59 UTC

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even quantized?

2026-08-27 01:53:35 UTC

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bury safe 2 in your yard so you can sign without leaving your property in a serious situation. the safe deposit box is cool, but not if you can't get to the bank.

2026-08-27 01:51:15 UTC

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hahaha

2026-08-25 01:16:28 UTC

this is in good company among the very few things you need to understand to make sense of most parts of life
#nevent1q…etmh

2026-08-24 02:40:23 UTC

besso o nadie

2026-08-23 04:05:39 UTC

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YES

2026-08-23 04:01:35 UTC

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please do!

2026-08-22 22:24:35 UTC

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been building like crazy! haven't opened up social clients much outside of some tests here and there.
any absences will always be temporary 🫡

2026-08-22 18:58:22 UTC

I feel like rug burn used to be a bigger problem in the world

2026-08-12 14:16:18 UTC

boom and bust - 'twas ever thus
while malinvestment lurks

2026-08-11 21:08:10 UTC

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might consider a Daylight Computer (or some eink display that doesn't have the privacy issues of Daylight) + keyboard and ssh.
getting rid of blue light helps with eye strain.
i can't explain it, but there's one couch in my house that if i sit on with a laptop, i get this fuzzy, vague, foggy headache/jaw ache.
i think jaw position actually comes into play a lot with all this stuff

2026-08-11 19:56:58 UTC

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i know this feeling. for me it's typically posture and light more than just the screen

2026-08-11 19:54:17 UTC

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i don't fuck with lawyers
#nevent1q…dufz

2026-08-11 00:57:28 UTC

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They had better have chosen someone for that ahead of time, if that's something they wanted. and if it's not something they wanted, then: nobody; as was desired.

2026-08-07 16:16:31 UTC

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Brother, you're being extremely paranoid.
The events that back everything here are out on relays, you can query them directly if you don't like the UI. it's just an interface layer that is meant to make things easier.
But it's 100% built on nostr, so you can just use nak if you'd prefer. There is no privileged database anywhere.
Where does the About say arbiters exist and simultaneously don't exist?
Maybe you're confusing the fact that you can just assign yourself as your own arbiter if you want? You can be: Your own curator, your own Arbiter, your own Worker, your own Patron. In that configuration, you're just fundraising directly with no extra parties involved (and I couldn't see how you could possibly have an issue with that).
Try as you might, you're not going to find a sneaky gatekeeping/permissioned backdoor somewhere. The protocol is entirely open. And you're sort of being a jackass, honestly.
Finally: https://github.com/vcavallo/grantless - the repo is public and the NIP is just a draft. don't like it? change it.

2026-08-07 16:15:26 UTC

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The events that back everything here are out on relays, you can query them directly if you don't like the UI. it's just an interface layer that is meant to make things easier.
But it's 100% built on nostr, so you can just use nak if you'd prefer. There is no privileged database anywhere.
Where does the About say arbiters exist and simultaneously don't exist?
Maybe you're confusing the fact that you can just assign yourself as your own arbiter if you want? You can be: Your own curator, your own Arbiter, your own Worker, your own Patron. In that configuration, you're just fundraising directly with no extra parties involved (and I couldn't see how you could possibly have an issue with that).
Try as you might, you're not going to find a sneaky gatekeeping/permissioned backdoor somewhere. The protocol is entirely open. And you're sort of being a jackass, honestly.
Finally: https://github.com/vcavallo/grantless
the repo is public and the NIP is just a draft. don't like it? change it.

2026-08-07 16:13:27 UTC

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The events that back everything here are out on relays, you can query them directly if you don't like the UI. it's just an interface layer that is meant to make things easier.
But it's 100% built on nostr, so you can just use nak if you'd prefer. There is no privileged database anywhere.
Where does the About say arbiters exist and simultaneously don't exist?
Maybe you're confusing the fact that you can just assign yourself as your own arbiter if you want? You can be: Your own curator, your own Arbiter, your own Worker, your own Patron. In that configuration, you're just fundraising directly with no extra parties involved (and I couldn't see how you could possibly have an issue with that).
Try as you might, you're not going to find a sneaky gatekeeping/permissioned backdoor somewhere. The protocol is entirely open. And you're sort of being a jackass, honestly.
Finally: https://github.com/vcavallo/grantless - the repo is public and the NIP is just a draft. don't like it? change it.

2026-08-07 16:06:44 UTC

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I've got a VPS with a bunch of self-hosted docker containers, uptime in years with no plans to ever take it down. I'll look into adding this. Is there something I need to do afterwards to advertise it or something?

2026-08-07 16:04:33 UTC

Too Many Puppies

2026-08-07 12:10:29 UTC

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it's on the about page. anyone who publishes a certain kind of list shows up in that curators dropdown.

2026-08-07 12:02:06 UTC

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Do you remember https://catallax.network ? It's just that wearing a different disguise.
It's permissionless crowdfunding, where a (trusted) third party holds the funds and disperses them as the project is completed to satisfaction. (hint: that "trusted third party" can also just be the person doing the project, if contributors trust him enough directly)

2026-08-06 20:31:40 UTC

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what the fuuuuck

2026-08-06 20:29:44 UTC

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somebody cant read. anyone can become a curator, and all they do in help with discoverability - not gating in any way.

2026-08-06 20:28:45 UTC

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happy to answer any questions that aren't covered by the about page

2026-08-06 18:32:27 UTC

I don't like prologues. Don't give me some random character i'm never going to see again, with some weird in medias res that I don't understand, for 15 pages... and THEN start the book in earnest after I've slogged through that.
Prologues should be the second chapter, if at all.

2026-08-06 18:26:57 UTC

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why didn't you use an open and permissionless funding model like https://grantless.org

2026-08-06 18:23:14 UTC

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whoa i was just wondering what all the fuss was about with the new primal but i'm not installing it. cool

2026-08-06 18:21:50 UTC

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many such cases

2026-08-06 18:21:04 UTC

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why, so all your historical posts can be even easier to find...?

2026-08-06 18:19:59 UTC

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👀👀👀

2026-08-06 15:27:15 UTC

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Any chance you're building it in Go?

2026-08-06 02:01:43 UTC

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I think it's because I've been deep in a code hole :)

2026-08-06 01:58:54 UTC

Hey @npub1m2j…3wgu I'm back on the #NATEOAS train and this time it's far, far, far deeper, weirder and more potent than last time. I can't wait to share this with you. I've been using it as my daily-driver productivity tool - basically a mini computer, maybe like a palm pilot, but omnipresent and malleable - and collaborating with AI agents through it (to build it).

2026-08-05 23:32:39 UTC

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i'd rather not install it. same on their web app?

2026-08-05 23:32:02 UTC

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0 hours per week (of podcasts). as opposed to 40HPW, which was a trend here for a little bit

2026-08-05 23:30:36 UTC

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they can get on https://grantless.org permissionlessly

2026-08-05 23:29:51 UTC

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yep! https://grantless.org

2026-08-05 23:28:53 UTC

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yep!

2026-08-05 23:28:08 UTC

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i haven't seen it

2026-08-04 17:31:56 UTC

#0HPW #farming
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/9fe04ccd103d280d7933364a43ecec6b778df5ed8de5cbf8932c9d43d5bd9bf9.jpg
you can **just** do things
(Romano beans, before you ask)

2026-08-04 10:58:23 UTC

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i would recommend linking to event ids or nevents, rather than primal share links. the former is protocol, the latter is platform

2026-08-04 10:42:01 UTC

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in terms of sats, yea.
in terms of a **naive onlooker's** assessment of one of the central pillars of bitcoin reliability...?
When the FTX, BlockFi or MtGox happened, Uncle Normie would be told: "Yeah, you should never keep bitcoin on exchanges. Keep it in cold storage. Use a hardware wallet". What does Uncle Normie hear now?
maybe he matters a lot less than i thought

2026-08-03 21:40:16 UTC

Bitcoin price cares more about old dinosaur bone juice on boats in the middle east than it does about the integrity of self-custody systems.
I can't tell if that's awful or excellent.

2026-08-03 17:39:07 UTC

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Using Linux does not protect you from exploits and exfiltrations. This is coming from someone who has daily-driven linux for over a decade.
Hardware wallets solve a completely different problem than what you're referring to. A hot wallet on a linux machine is still, for example, swapping your seed phrase from RAM to disk, sitting in cleartext on an unencrypted volume.

2026-08-02 03:04:13 UTC

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isn't the rng only relevant to the entropy generation?

2026-08-02 02:59:17 UTC

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what game?

2026-08-02 02:51:46 UTC

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can you not give a coldcard your own seed that you genarated yourself? i thought you could but have't verified

2026-08-02 02:50:18 UTC

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and of course: https://iancoleman.io/bip39/#english

2026-08-02 02:40:31 UTC

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that's easy enough to generate with a short python script that doens't write to disk or shell session, but you're right that's a potential weakspot if your threat model is really severe and can't trust your machine.
...i guess at that point, why do the rest with dice/paper?

2026-08-02 02:38:38 UTC

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yea to be clear i meant providing coldcard with legit, offline hand-rolled bip39 entropy.

2026-07-31 22:01:32 UTC

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brother.... There's nothing I can say..

2026-07-31 22:00:29 UTC

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somehow, knowing it's not a spider makes me instantly less creeped-out by it, which makes no sense at all

2026-07-31 20:38:51 UTC

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to be fair, there is no more verifiable way to be certain about the entropy than to take the bip39 wordlist and roll it yourself analog.

2026-07-31 20:35:50 UTC

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what the fuck is that and why is it anywhere near you?

2026-07-31 20:35:04 UTC

this makes me sad
#nevent1q…kw2g

2026-07-31 20:30:30 UTC

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i printed and cut out the bip39 wordlist and have them in a bag. easier than dice and lookups

2026-07-31 20:26:04 UTC

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how dumb can one be. using a paid account? i hope they paid privately and somehow nokyc'd their account. or i hope they didn't, but you know what i mean

2026-07-31 16:15:03 UTC

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Not an argument, real question: which would you figure is safer, Coldcard with sufficient entropy, or a hot wallet in Sparrow?

2026-07-31 15:36:49 UTC

you can keep using your coldcard if you generate your own entropy

2026-07-31 15:34:31 UTC

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rotary phone

2026-07-31 15:32:20 UTC

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not yet and maybe not ever. from what i understand, even ASICS can't be used to break them. but they DO have less entropy than was expected, so it's a vulnerability for sure. but my non-expert view is that it would take a much bigger actor to attack the mk4s than did the mk3s

2026-07-31 15:30:00 UTC

how many people are going to lose funds panic-responding?

2026-07-31 14:53:14 UTC

Mk3 are being actively exploited. Move quickly but with as cool a head as you can manage.
Mk4, Mk5, Q need to act, but not rush and make mistakes. I don't want to say "you have days" and be wrong, but it's closer to correct than "act now in a panic and shoot yourself in the foot"

2026-07-31 13:55:18 UTC

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md

2026-07-30 18:12:22 UTC

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Do you ship to the wider New England region?

2026-07-25 17:09:02 UTC

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I went through this for my first time ever last year. My mind is still blown, i'm never going back

2026-07-25 17:03:55 UTC

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What's the duress PIN news wrt Graphene?

2026-07-25 11:39:48 UTC

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so, Urbit, basically

2026-07-25 02:15:07 UTC

spondulix

2026-07-24 03:12:27 UTC

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nooooo

2026-07-24 03:11:49 UTC

whoa what is this i don't think i posted this note...
#nevent1q…6tuu

2026-07-22 16:59:00 UTC

it's crazy that law, society and "citizenship" aren't strutcured like protocol docs and proposals...
stay tuned

2026-07-22 14:40:50 UTC

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Didn't Jack resign?

2026-07-22 02:26:51 UTC

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what happened?

2026-07-21 20:01:27 UTC

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what note? what'd i miss?

2026-07-20 14:38:23 UTC

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❤️Carse❤️

2026-07-18 15:35:56 UTC

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woweeee

2026-07-17 20:59:39 UTC

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oh! i figured the big new feature was the keyed download!
maybe it's... a shared drive mediated by WoT?

2026-07-17 11:54:48 UTC

🟪

2026-07-17 11:04:41 UTC

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So awesome
#nevent1q…q3rr

2026-07-17 11:04:17 UTC

Wow, what a demo! He put the blossom server application inside the blossom server application and then keyed a download uniquely to me, I downloaded it and am currently running it on my desktop (a single binary, nothing to install).
Very impressive
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/e19ec902e093c1e648ea7cfa375a4bdd43e4cfbf6ff6eeb60fadb19e3bc618a8.png
#nevent1q…qadp

2026-07-16 15:32:10 UTC

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eeeee

2026-07-16 15:32:00 UTC

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just to be clear, i didn't write it. check the note details, this is a web rip to markdown/nostr

2026-07-16 10:43:21 UTC

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whoa cool yes. where is it?

2026-07-16 03:19:39 UTC

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👀👀 is this a hypermedia blossom file drive..?