Celata

Well that's not good
https://npub1rkc386aldh9p28pfw87guc0r0rft9j2mtvpf0zdfjm4y0fm469hs6cy8dq.blossom.band/114ec88a63bb27dbc0c0cc7b255c2de46f135a6fbce38b72ab97d83a18f31f3a.mp4

2026-07-16 20:53:00 CEST

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I had some, not a fan

2026-07-15 20:06:26 CEST

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Those look like Queers to me. Queers claim to be gay but they are mostly not. They tend to be smelly.
This is what lesbians look like
https://i.ibb.co/HfSfNHSv/pfp15.png

2026-07-15 19:31:46 CEST

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Cologne is awesome. Also, Apfelkorn!

2026-07-14 15:42:34 CEST

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Sure.
1. "Serious scalability problems"
The "O(N) Relay" problem: In Nostr, clients have to query multiple relays to fetch a user's feed, and publishers must push their events to multiple relays to ensure their audience sees them. As the number of users and relays grows, the network traffic and duplicate data processing scale inefficiently.
No global state consistency: Unlike blockchains (which have a shared state) or federated networks like Mastodon (which route messages to specific servers), Nostr relies on gossip. Finding and assembling a complete, chronological feed across disconnected, independent relays is highly resource-intensive for both clients and servers.
Spam and storage: Because writing to most relays is cheap or free, they are highly susceptible to spam. Mitigating this requires relays to implement aggressive filtering or paid entry, which fragments the network.
2. "Hardcoded to outdated crypto"
The Schnorr/secp256k1 lock-in: Nostr is heavily tied to Bitcoin’s cryptographic curve (secp256k1) and Schnorr signatures (NIP-01). While great for Bitcoin compatibility, this curve is not standard in the broader web cryptography ecosystem.
Lack of agility: If a vulnerability is found in secp256k1, or if quantum-resistant cryptography becomes necessary (PQC), Nostr cannot easily transition. Because the cryptographic keys are the user identities (NPUBs), changing the algorithm means everyone would have to abandon their existing identity and start over. There is no built-in mechanism for "key rotation" to a different cryptographic standard.
3. "Identity, UI, and processing (relay) are in different places... meaning you have to basically trust everything"
Fragmentation of the stack: In a typical Nostr setup, your identity (private key) is held in a browser extension (like Alby or Nos2x), your UI is a web app hosted by a third party (like Coracle or Primal), and your processing/data storage happens on third-party relays.
The trust dilemma (No non-custodial middle): Because these three layers are entirely disconnected, you face an "all-or-nothing" trust model:
Trust the UI: You have to trust that the web client isn't maliciously showing you fake data, hiding posts, or tricking you into signing a transaction you didn't intend to.
Trust the Extension: You have to trust that your key manager is securely holding your keys and not leaking them. Also your extension is not partitioned and can read all your web traffic and internal browser state even on secure sites like your bank website.
Because there is no "middle tier"—like a personal, trusted local proxy or a "light client" that cryptographically verifies the UI's behavior—you are forced to fully trust the client app to render the truth and the relays to serve it honestly.
4. "Content is a raw string that has zero content typing..."
No MIME type standards: When a Nostr event (specifically Kind 1, short text notes) is sent, the actual payload is just a raw string of text. There is no standardized metadata telling the client, "This content is HTML," "This is Markdown," or "This is a JSON object."
Inconsistent rendering: Because the data payload doesn't declare its own type, different Nostr clients will parse and display the exact same post differently. What looks like a beautifully formatted post on one client might render as raw, ugly markdown or plain text on another.
5. "...determining what to display is obsolete sniffing of file extensions and a serious security problem"
Relying on file extensions: Because there is no strict content typing, clients have to guess what a link is by "sniffing" the URL. For example, if a client sees a URL ending in .jpg, it assumes it's an image and automatically renders it.
Security risks of "sniffing": This approach is notoriously insecure and outdated:
MIME-sniffing exploits: An attacker could post a link ending in .png that actually contains malicious JavaScript or executable code. If the client's parser is naive, it might attempt to execute or process the file, leading to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks or arbitrary code execution.
IP Leaks and Tracking: Automatically loading URLs found in raw text strings to "preview" them forces the user's client to make requests to unknown third-party servers, immediately leaking the user's IP address and browser metadata to whoever hosts that link.

2026-07-13 21:36:06 CEST

Stuff I am finding out while researching how one would build a properly censorship resistant social media network:
- Nostr has serious scalability problems, is hardcoded to outdated crypto, and identity, UI and processing (relay) are all in different places meaning you have to basically trust everything: you have a binary trust choice (server or extension) with no non-custodial middle. Content is a raw string that has zero content typing, determining what to display is obsolete sniffing of file extensions and a serious security problem.
- In order to post anything to ActivityPub you have to have a publicly registered certificate which identifies you, completely destroying anonymity.
- Matrix has good content encryption but metadata is never end to end encrypted even when payloads are: your homeserver knows who's in which rooms with whom and when. Federation multiplies custodians. Identity is entirely homeserver-based, not portable - every Matrix identity is always an account on someone else's server rather than something owned by the individual.
It's fucking grim. Systems that are supposedly "privacy oriented" are in fact nothing of the sort.

2026-07-12 19:25:45 CEST

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That's terrible, Muriel

2026-07-12 19:22:21 CEST

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Darwinism in action

2026-07-05 07:21:35 CEST

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Correct. What they are doing themselves is conversion therapy, so they're trying to redefine opposition to it as conversion therapy. Standard Queer Theory tactics.

2026-07-04 08:29:34 CEST

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Happy country day

2026-07-04 06:50:52 CEST

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Bra doesn't fit

2026-07-04 06:48:54 CEST

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Looks totally safe nothing to worry about

2026-07-04 06:47:56 CEST

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lol I do have AC even if the northerners are losing their tiny minds

2026-07-01 20:56:57 CEST

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It's not because I don't want to chat :)

2026-07-01 19:34:08 CEST

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I will wait until there is a version available through Ubuntu package management

2026-06-30 19:42:52 CEST

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Jumble:
https://npub1rkc386aldh9p28pfw87guc0r0rft9j2mtvpf0zdfjm4y0fm469hs6cy8dq.blossom.band/eb485057c2a302cb48b061bafc8f8c38fbdcc6f6bed34e6d2551375afe9ec823.png

2026-06-29 18:35:15 CEST

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Holy straw man Batman

2026-06-29 10:14:37 CEST

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Sounds worthy although probably not scalable. Easy to just inject 100 competing narratives.

2026-06-29 07:05:29 CEST

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Does this mean that Nostr will also shortly be claiming that gender identity has been proved by science and that Marsha P Johnson threw the first brick at Stonewall?

2026-06-28 07:38:30 CEST

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Also it might be a square mile on the map but all up and down so in fact it might cover much more than a square mile overall but be entirely useless for agriculture.

2026-06-27 12:56:55 CEST

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Those aren't bases though. Bases would be where you have one symbol for each digit up to that point.
Base 12: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b, then "10" is the number twelve.
Also, Fahrenheit simply makes no sense for anything. And the USA went "metric" regarding dollars and cents a long time during which Britain was using 12 pennies to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound etc

2026-06-24 10:13:27 CEST

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The UN also says that trans women are women 🤷‍♀

2026-06-24 10:08:23 CEST

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Hey I look awesome in a leopard print

2026-06-24 10:03:40 CEST

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3 different things that all need to align perfectly yet live in different places:
1. identity: managed by nos2x or whatever extension that you have to trust for all websites
2. UI interaction ("client"): managed by your browser on the basis of someone else's code on a website that has to be accessible and you have to trust
3. relays: run by someone else on a server that has to be accessible and that you have to mostly trust
The only real advantage is that no one relay owner can hold you hostage because you can move to another - unless they all form a cartel on certain issues, or the client developers do.
If all of this were handled by you - you run a node, you interact with your own node only, your node talks to other nodes to resolve the state of the note-space you're interested in - this would be a true distributed peer to peer system that gives you complete sovereignty on all fronts. Your identity lives in your node, no dodgy hack needed with nos2x etc. A mesh design, not a client-server design. Resilient as well as uncensorable. Also make it easily routable through VPNs and firewalls and cacheable/efficient, which is fucked by the current WebSocket design. And make the crypto algorithm upgradeable instead of hardcoded to be stuck on Schnorr which will be fucked by PQC.
Just my little thoughts. Needs techies to make it happen

2026-06-24 09:42:56 CEST

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This seems to be a bit of a design flaw with Nostr. It's failing at its own design goal which is to put you in charge of your own shit

2026-06-23 20:05:20 CEST

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Fork found in kitchen

2026-06-22 20:25:42 CEST

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I don't think you're going to kill anyone but yourself in your current state

2026-06-22 19:52:08 CEST

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What's brought this on? 😂

2026-06-22 18:57:43 CEST

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Wait are you abandoning your own client?

2026-06-22 18:53:45 CEST

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To eat? 🫨

2026-06-22 05:43:45 CEST

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Step 3 and step 6 are mutually exclusive right?

2026-06-22 05:33:03 CEST

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I've been down this hole many times. It's not about what others think but how you feel in yourself that matters. Don't give others the power to control your self-confidence.

2026-06-22 05:25:02 CEST

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I don't feel hungry any more

2026-06-21 13:45:27 CEST

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Even if arrested, a significant chance now that this offender would be released immediately.

2026-06-19 15:50:12 CEST

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Yeah you need to get it checked out thoroughly by a vet

2026-06-19 15:49:36 CEST

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I never ignore reasonable requests

2026-06-19 14:18:01 CEST

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Plenty of Romanian strays needing a home for free

2026-06-19 14:16:57 CEST

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Yeah but no but

2026-06-19 13:55:57 CEST

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Meh I have to go out and take photos now

2026-06-19 08:13:49 CEST

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It looks awesome for sure but I need something seriously waterproof

2026-06-19 07:59:21 CEST

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This has nothing to do with the Gay Pride celebration however. It was a tiny unrelated local activist group.

2026-06-18 21:02:43 CEST

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I remembered there being tracks, but maybe my memory is playing tricks
https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Command-and-Conquer-Remastered-Screenshot-Ion-Cannon.jpg

2026-06-18 07:59:02 CEST

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It looks like a representation of a low-pixel scene from Command & Conquer getting a tank or APC into position

2026-06-17 23:50:32 CEST

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Cybernetics isn't really a very good word though because it specifically means a system that is under the control of someone else - that was the original selling point of robotics

2026-06-17 23:30:37 CEST

Two of my Twitter moots blocked me today after they had a fight with another of my moots and I told them they were overreacting.
So they proved it.
In naval circles this kind of person is called a biter. They can't deal with banter and go off the deep end. It usually sets them up for being ribbed more.

2026-06-16 07:46:12 CEST

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Now that's customer service 😁

2026-06-16 06:17:19 CEST

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Hassle @npub1m4n…c2jl about it, she's on all the time.
I think Primal, Ditto and Nostrudel work pretty well as well

2026-06-15 06:46:24 CEST

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Did his street photography involve his Prophet raping a 9 year old child?https://npub1rkc386aldh9p28pfw87guc0r0rft9j2mtvpf0zdfjm4y0fm469hs6cy8dq.blossom.band/ce0dfae25bbb944dc18f58a730d0a04449dd565700cbb78f419451f87612cd60.png

2026-06-15 06:38:54 CEST

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Maybe America will ban it

2026-06-15 06:35:30 CEST

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Mohamed is a Muslim name, right?

2026-06-14 07:19:19 CEST

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These guys are surprisingly friendly. Not cuddly though

2026-06-14 07:17:52 CEST

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They need putting away for a very long time

2026-06-13 20:22:05 CEST

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Wait who are you? 😁

2026-06-13 20:19:41 CEST

I joined Nostr because I wanted to be able to say things without being banned.
#nevent1q…wzet

2026-06-13 12:19:08 CEST

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hmm

2026-06-13 12:12:48 CEST

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Get some exercise, it releases endorphins

2026-06-13 12:08:17 CEST

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Beautiful

2026-06-13 07:57:26 CEST

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Both sides seem to be annoyed that the other side is doing it better

2026-06-13 07:49:10 CEST

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Where is my dadjoke emoji

2026-06-12 20:11:10 CEST

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Oh it's Joon. I keep on poking him to log on

2026-06-12 20:06:47 CEST

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@npub18gx…736z
Crayon Shin-chan

2026-06-12 20:02:56 CEST

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I updated the chapter image for this and Games, since I reminded myself

2026-06-12 11:21:02 CEST

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I think the West is probably a state of mind rather than anything geographical. I mean, there's not much that is further east than New Zealand

2026-06-12 08:23:49 CEST

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Is true

2026-06-12 08:21:57 CEST

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By "in the West" I guess you mean USA?

2026-06-12 08:09:18 CEST

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I mean, don't wear platform boots then?

2026-06-10 19:21:15 CEST

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Dave in Philosophy: where am I supposed to look now? 😂

2026-06-10 12:49:54 CEST

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Why not

2026-06-10 06:17:57 CEST

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People are addicted to convenience and call smartphones, internet, probably AI soon human rights.
To those of use who know how to navigate with a sextant they look like the humans in WALL-E

2026-06-09 22:39:28 CEST

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Sounds like a good excuse not to have anything that meets the criteria of a mobile device.
Or mass disobedience.

2026-06-09 19:54:05 CEST

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Love it!

2026-06-09 19:50:43 CEST

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huh

2026-06-09 08:12:33 CEST

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My abs used to be nearly that good once upon a time, she says wistfully

2026-06-08 18:36:40 CEST

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Book 5

2026-06-08 08:34:16 CEST

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Kind of preferred it before the red 😶

2026-06-08 08:18:49 CEST

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Bad idea.
Sliding blade knives are inherently weak and dangerous. Because the blade retracts into the haft, there is no solid tang inside to support it during use. Instead of steel-on-steel stability, you’re relying entirely on a tiny locking pin to not fail on your fingers.

2026-06-07 10:48:09 CEST

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This story is from March 2026, nearly 10 weeks ago. Did anything change?

2026-06-07 10:29:37 CEST

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Phonetic is very much a misnomer here

2026-06-06 13:26:43 CEST

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Looks good to me

2026-06-04 07:44:50 CEST

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I know, right?