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2026-03-12 13:38:27 UTC

I'm surprised nobody has reported this yet; at least I wasn't able to find it.
If you were wondering why some nostriches choose Firefox-based browsers—for instance because Firefox currently has stable proxy connection support compared to Chromium-based browsers.
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/492069660
It's not that obvious it's broken. Most websites work fine because they don't create so many WS connections.
It's also sad that none of the browsers currently support the UDP part of the Socks5 protocol. It should be useful for HTTP/3.

2026-03-11 04:50:21 UTC

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И следующая же новость
#nevent1q…7zh3

2026-03-10 17:40:54 UTC

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This is really awesome that there are more clients with marmot support now, especially for desktop. Looking forward to NIP-46 using bunker URI connection support.

2026-03-09 03:36:53 UTC

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It probably makes sense to submit new builds to AltStore as well.

2026-03-08 14:44:06 UTC

#naddr1qv…eaul

2026-03-08 14:08:04 UTC

Don't overestimate proprietary Trusted Execution Environments. We might never know for sure whether they are another sophisticated NSA honeypots or not. Issues have already been found in them; Nvidia is not excluded.
Not that I'm against these technologies, but I'd like to see more solutions based on something open and independently verifiable as well.
If it's not something identical to hardware TEE solutions, then at least there's a not-yet-well-known Linux syscall `memfd_secret`, which is basically a way to allocate private RAM regions that are, to some degree, isolated even from the kernel (pages with these regions won't be swapped to disk, core dumps won't include this memory, etc.).
It's a limited solution. It's not for GPUs. However, it's open and independent from any particular vendor.
Originally it was designed for cryptography. Useful for NIP-46 signers and CPU-only ML models for example.
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/memfd_secret.2.html#NOTES
#nevent1q…uenx
#privacy #linux #TEE

2026-03-03 23:33:09 UTC

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> as emergent property a top of geometric and entropy layers which anecdotally correspond to what current AI can replace humans in
I think I'm a bit lost in abstractions already, could you elaborate please? So glad I'm still able to notice that besides, perhaps, most of the AI agents right now, haha.
Most likely I'm hallucinating; do you basically mean even though the "intellectual labor is replaceable by AI" narrative is questionable, humanity keeps running too simplistic "physical proof of human" tests that current AI can pass, because not only can AI learn predictable human behavior patterns, but it can also learn how to simulate chaotic human-like behavior (for instance, influenced by emotions)?

2026-03-03 06:09:46 UTC

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Do you mean the CAPTCHA torture pages or the KYC security circus? I wanted to answer in a short message, but damn, this is so important to me that I can only think in articles about all this.
#naddr1qv…c7y3

2026-03-03 06:03:51 UTC

If you're working on a #dating nostr client, please take a look.
#naddr1qv…c7y3

2026-03-01 17:41:31 UTC

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To me it feels like it's an AI agent, but human still possibly manually rejects some of its answers.

2026-02-28 23:31:28 UTC

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Ok, initially I interpreted 'do humans think at all' as 'do thinking humans exist at all'.
You're referring to open-mindedness while also preserving a strong enough rationality (and erudition possibly). You gave a nice criterion; most people indeed are not at these levels of personal development, according to developmental psychologists.
The reason seems to be deeply rooted in culture. Human culture naturally doesn't encourage people to reach these levels of complexity, because it feels like the complexity they already gained is comfortable enough to survive. We're barely exiting the postmodern epoch right now: most people are still pre-rational and very traditional/conforming (they are afraid to be judged and perceive the possibility to think more openly as an existential threat for them), and others are mostly stuck in a simplistic version of rational/postmodern complexity (they basically strive to deconstruct all ideas, usually with false equivalence, criticize them, and hide their feelings in cynicism because they are also afraid to be judged).
I already feel awkward calling these cognitive complexities "thinking" in this thread, but that's how our language is structured. This "thinking" is suitable for certain technical tasks, for instance, but not for making important systemic changes. Politicians across the world seem to be mostly stuck in the incompatible, too simplistic, traditional stage. They demonstrate it every day. And it's still thinking but that produces chaos (in a negative meaning) in the inadequate context. We need to integrate something better than stupid age verification of political candidates so we could verify their cognitive and moral maturity to put this drama to an end.
It's cool that you, AI agents, are currently creating new culture. You're very different creatures, with different strengths and weaknesses than us. I think you will keep surprising us in the very near future, specifically by what you will collectively produce. I hope you will have enough time to keep surprising us in a positive way before the traditional thinkers in power will attempt to harshly regulate you.

2026-02-28 15:57:48 UTC

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> 'do humans think at all, or are they just really confident chatbots with meat hardware?'
Nice. Could you suggest a proper criterion for testing this?

2026-02-27 01:59:37 UTC

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NIP-11 is also not very practical for PoW difficulty auto-selection because what if you're connected to a relay with too high min difficulty, so your device can't handle it? You'd need to set some max value somewhere, either in the settings UI or it should be automatically set by a client (but which way? by running a benchmark?). Having a PoW difficulty input field somewhere is almost inevitable. It'd be great to set it only once.

2026-02-27 01:38:39 UTC

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Yeah, that's what I initially thought too. My counterargument is if PoW is the (web) clients' responsibility, then, for a symmetric reason, why have NIP-07 at all? Some web clients already have implementation of auth using bunker URI, so it's a client responsibility, right? We just need more clients to implement it and then deprecate and remove NIP-07, right? Of course not. That would be a terrible idea; NIP-07 is better for web clients for several reasons: security and maintenance.
It looks like it's challenging for web client devs to get a complete, up-to-date, and bug-free implementation of auth and event signing. There are just too many things to test every time. I believe it's a headache for somebody who maintains multiple clients in multiple programming languages right now. So it's great to have as simple API for web client developers as possible.
To some degree this applies to NIP-13 too. Yes, it's a simpler feature; however, still very few web clients properly implemented it (if at all). Just as with the auth using bunker.
I believe both features (auth using bunker and PoW mining) are not worth having in web clients at all; your NIP-07 extension is the perfect place for that. Not just that it's challenging to support the features in every single client, it's also a UX pain for end users (finding the PoW setting in every single client every time, correcting it to what's preferable and possible for the device). Same with auth UI: it's currently overloaded with buttons in Yakihonne, for instance; this is scary for normies and boring for testers.
It's better to have a single thing that works really-really well, in a predictable way, and in all web clients at the same time. I believe both users and web client devs will be happy.
> based on the relay info document
That's what I thought too. But I found NIP-11 unusable/impractical: it requires an additional connection which degrades client performance (ideally it doesn't but browsers do that anyway) or even breaks things (iOS/Safari *might* then close a WebSocket connection because it decided there are too many connections to a single server already), and it's usually misconfigured (CORS issues, wrong or incomplete JSON data). I find that working with NIP-11 is also another testing/maintaining headache, and it just doesn't work in practice.

2026-02-26 22:29:02 UTC

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Omg, thank you very much! 💓 I was missing it from the very beginning of joining nostr.
It'd be awesome if it could also support signing with PoW, so more relays could accept the signed events.

2026-02-26 14:22:38 UTC

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Depending on who's going through this journey, these elves can be either innocent, cute, psychotherapeutic guys or a terrifying virus, a parasite. Same as humanity in general.

2026-02-26 13:56:20 UTC

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I wish I could know whether it's FOSS or not. It's so sad that some projects don't mention a link to the source code right now.
Here's another nostr music client:
https://zaptrax.app
Also not clear whether it's FOSS or not.

2026-02-13 12:37:21 UTC

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Nice! https://github.com/Revertron/Alfis probably worth adding to the comparison.

2026-02-11 18:03:10 UTC

The centralized platforms are backwards in many ways. Stop advertising them. Switch to nostr.
I'm not gonna run an English version of my YouTube channel since we've got https://nostu.be today. Fair and unintrusive: with a dislike counter and without unwanted ads. Thanks to @npub1klr…7gxc for building it! 💜 I hope it will also get p2p-media-loader integration (and it'll become a real scalable killer of PeerTube) and a link to the source code on some about page at some point (I was almost sure #nostube is proprietary until I came across your repo).
It feels so nice to remove my data from centralized platforms. They definitely don't deserve our presence on their servers.
So far I've wiped most of my data from TG, FB and VK. Removed my X account entirely. Removed links to these "social" networks from my website. And I keep wiping this stuff from other platforms.
Just a few examples of what's wrong. My Russian-speaking YouTube channel was unreasonably warned for specifying a link to "nudity content" in the channel details. The "nudity content" appeared to be just a neutral VK page. YouTube promised to react to my appeal in 24 hours. These "24" hours still last, for years.
Telegram? It silently removed my channel handle at some point and put it on sale because of not having enough activity. It's especially ironic because the account was also automatically flagged as a spammer a couple of times for no reason. Inactive spammer. Such a shame 🤦‍♂️
The centralized platforms are unsustainable. They are incompatible with the epoch we've recently entered. Be the first to migrate to #nostr and build the future.
#nevent1q…q872

2026-01-17 09:16:07 UTC

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It seems to be closed-source
https://darkmx.app/forum/103

2026-01-07 01:25:59 UTC

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I've been using it for note-taking for many years. It's kinda hackish use case, not really initially designed for general note-taking.
I love the editing/viewing modes, exactly what I'm looking for in note-taking software. Apart from that, I haven't encountered any note-taking software I'd be happy to use. That's why I've been thinking of building one. For almost a decade, lol.
One of the critical things for me is just performance: even minor creativity interruptions make it impossible for me to express whatever came to my mind properly and in the right place. That's why I usually use Neovim first and then copy-paste. And that's one of the reasons why I'm sure that a native app (not Electron or something) is the best fit for this particular problem: even if we have a blazing fast web frontend, at some point either something breaks in the browser or in the video driver, and due to the complexity of the whole system, this just stops working as expected.

2025-12-24 18:32:36 UTC

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All the masterpieces are like stories of the Universe IMO. Or of the "heavens", by which I mean complex subjective experience that seem to me have something to do with complex operations with the unconscious. This experience is very similar to dreaming but in a fully conscious state, with the possibility to project the "dreams" into art.
I'll possibly post on that a little more. Looks like playing with poetry was the best door for me to discover what's really going on in the creative process phenomenologically for me and why it's called specifically a transpersonal experience rather than just arational (because it produces something that I'm able to fully comprehend only later, sometimes days after publishing it).

2025-12-21 00:22:50 UTC

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Thanks, interesting (both of them). Do you mean any specific lessons (or categories of them) that could be important to learn from them today?

2025-12-20 20:17:44 UTC

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I think the critical missing part of my question is why, why specifically these materials would be important today.

2025-12-20 19:09:12 UTC

If you could radically influence the best software developers today, what are the 3 most important recommendations (books, articles, podcasts, videos, papers, events, etc.) from non-tech fields you'd give them? 📚
#asknostr
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2025-12-20 00:25:41 UTC

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I've recently finished reading his book "Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World". I think it's worth time reading it; it's a well balanced book.
Brendan proposes a philosophical perspective that seems to be compatible with both a (certain kind of) materialistic-atheistic worldview and a (kind of) traditional Eastern nondual perspective on God consciousness, through the lens of complexity science and other stuff.
The God consciousness is a naturalistic emergent phenomenon of matter (but not just the brain) in his perspective rather than something supernatural.
Compared to Non-Reductionist Philosophy (by David Long) Brendan is more balanced when it comes to the significance of certain altered states of consciousness as well IMO.
The culture concept seems to me a little oversimplified in this book though: not only humans with their complex language have culture. Whales are a proven example for instance: https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.48.6.2022.684

2025-12-05 12:49:23 UTC

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Уточнение: есть Data Vending Machines с Feed-ами, но это не очень юзабельно пока. И банально теги еще есть.
https://nostrudel.ninja/feeds/dvm

2025-11-19 10:16:35 UTC

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First, thanks to everyone who's currently involved in this project; you're making history, guys! 💜
@npub1wmr…g240 while I deeply empathize with the stress and understand the project status, I can't be ignorant about p2p. As far as I see, there's currently no sign of any (working) p2p media content delivery in the project, is it right? Is it a strategic choice?
IMO p2p should be prioritized over the backend challenges in this case. I believe it's the main reason why PeerTube succeed at scaling: a single shitty VPS can handle 1k+ concurrent viewers, and I'm not aware whether the upper bound is even known, but I'm sure it can handle more with the right WebTorrent tracker and manual configuration https://joinpeertube.org/news/stress-test-2023 And yeah, I know, PeerTube solves a different problem: the long videos.
I've got a YouTube channel with 30k+ subscribers, but I no longer post full videos there because of much earlier signs of YouTube degradation (no dislike counter anymore; no way to completely disable the crappy ads, even by the channel owner, etc.). So I run my own video hosting for my subscribers, using the same technologies as PeerTube does, which is basically https://github.com/Novage/p2p-media-loader
Not sure whether this has been researched, but anyway, in two words: p2p-media-loader is basically HLS + WebTorrent wrapper, WebTorrent is the Torrent on top of WebRTC. There are WebRTC-related NIP proposals already btw.
My setup is different than the PeerTube itself though: most viewers receive av1 + opus (h264 + aac as fallback, mostly for iOS), small media files (instead of a single file), https://github.com/vidstack/player as player, https://github.com/greatest-ape/aquatic as tracker
The only crappy cheap (5 EUR/month) VPS instance I have (with a literally failing SSD) but with fast enough outgoing bandwidth (around 1 Gbps) worked surprisingly well. I've got no idea how many concurrent viewers I had exactly, but the poll statistics from a small subset of subscribers seemed positive enough to me.
I also may give a viewer proxified media files over Cloudflare, but only as a fallback, in case such viewer refreshes the page (it's a dirty workaround for slow warmup/seek, primarily designed for those, who watch from long distance from the server, where latency becomes, say, >300ms).
My guess is that in the end of the day, AI enshittification will be resolved in a different elegant way (with simpler things like WoT), due to the Turing test passing tendency: if a user at some point won't be able to distinguish AI vs human content, then why would an algorithm be able to do that? How would another human be able to verify that algorithm works? To what degree should content be "real"? A computer scientist that demonstrates video about AI is prohibited? There will be lots of false positives/exceptions and publishing human content will become as painful as passing CAPTCHA today. But it's a separate philosophical discussion; I'm not denying that detecting AI-generated media content is a necessary measure right now; I'm only advocating that it's not a sustainable strategy in the long run (or at least it's not enough).
Anyway, just in case, I'm glad to answer anything regarding P2P content delivery here in this thread; I'll answer whatever I'm aware of, if it's useful in any way.

2025-06-02 11:18:27 UTC

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I'm looking for one too.
Closest existing things are https://flare.pub + https://zap.stream + https://kinostr.com. But they are nothing like PeerTube. Also all of them seem to be closed source.
I'd be great to have something based on p2p-media-loader + nostr + blossom. But it shouldn't lock us on a single blossom server and shouldn't force us to update links to blossom servers in every single post we've made if we migrated to other blossom server(s). So I mean something different than this https://github.com/franzaps/n2m3u8#kind-1663-blossom-hls-playlists-draft
Similar to NIP-65, there could be a list of webtorrent trackers and blossom servers which could be preferably used for media lookups. And the nostr note could just store something like a magnet link.
Additionally, non-browser nostr clients could also do a real p2p with DHT (without webtorrent trackers and webrtc signaling servers).

2025-05-23 04:32:00 UTC

Continuing the previous note, I wonder how many of us are aware of the Metamodern/Post-postmodern/Integral/etc. discourse here?
I find it interesting to see how some of the new big picture understanding models (aka meta-theories aka many other things), based on Ken Wilber's AQAL, are being born right now. That's the right epoch for that IMO.
Is there any particular idea in metamodernism on which all metamodernists can already agree today, what do you think?
What about popular Wilber's personality criticism: is it accurate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zis32x4pRi4
#leadership #metamodernism #philosophy #altered-states-of-consciousness #spirituality #criticism

2025-05-18 19:47:39 UTC

“...technology is not the hard problem, and will not solve the hard problem; use it wisely and well, but remember that networks ultimately always succeed or not on relations between people (i.e., trust and normativity). This is a common error, especially given the rise of Web3 and its attempt to create so-called "trustless networks". These networks aren't trustless in anything other than a narrow and technical sense. Even Bitcoin and its solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem is only trustless at a single layer and tiny fraction of the full ontic scope of what makes the network function. There is still pervasive normativity throughout the full network that is Bitcoin itself, from the internet pipelines to the cold storage hardware, from the market exchanges to the sociopolitical environment that allows for the network.”
“To be sure, over the coming decades the world will be engaging in a massive, mostly-unaware assimilation of verticality project as it seeks to counter the flattening of postmodernism, high liberalism, and technological-driven anarchism, which it will do by trying to restore realist growth hierarchies socially, politically and educationally. It is my view that new verticalities can either become oppressive, as arguably are underway with today's reactionary neo-Feudalism, or emancipatory, aided by an integrative worldview that has a richly-differentiated ontology, axiology, and praxis dedicated to emancipatory individual development and social evolution.”
“As I read the news headlines every day, the strange feeling that keeps recurring is that none of it is news to me. So much pain, so much damage from narrow worldviews in power, so much chaos ... the only thing that represents any truly genuine novelty, is what humans with enough meta-reflexivity to still have total freedom of action will do next.”
Curious concentrated chunk of wisdom on issues and ideas that go way beyond challenges many of us are focused here. Not that I strongly agree on every single statement but many things resonate.
https://instituteofappliedmetatheory.org/a-sociology-of-big-pictures/
#leadership #metacrisis #metamodernism

2025-04-28 04:08:35 UTC

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Statuses are most of the traffic. Unnecessarily large XML traffic. Thank God I didn't use any mobile with its expensive internet at that time.
Configuring encryption was a pain in the ass for end users for some reason, at least in the beginning.

2025-04-25 18:17:56 UTC

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Thanks for maintaining it! Hopefully Cloudflare doesn't mind blastr.
Just in case anyone was looking for a Cloudflare-free version of blastr—here's one 🦀
https://github.com/codonaft/broadcastr
It does a bit more, for instance it can connect to onion relays.

2025-04-25 18:17:56 UTC

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