Hakan

There are a lot of new features I haven’t fully used yet and don’t quite understand how they work :) For now, I’ll call them nice changes since they haven’t disrupted my user experience in a negative way.

2026-05-01 12:10:56 CEST

Hello again and good morning! So much has changed at Nostr since I was last here... :)

2026-01-20 11:14:27 CET

I always get excited when I return to Nostr, eager to see what has changed

2025-12-10 11:30:45 CET

Hey everyone!
I'm still here. I just haven't been able to get internet service set up at my place since moving. And you know how much data Nostr uses...

2025-10-28 15:34:37 CET

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If it is added as an extra relay rather than the only available one, it may be easier to find newcomers and hear their voices. After all, there are clients that successfully display relay feeds. Interaction may help them adapt more quickly. Imagine a welcome squad :)

2025-10-26 09:07:53 CET

I recently watched The City & The City. Since I enjoyed the novel and the New Weird genre in general, I really liked the series too. I'm looking for another similar series. Any recommendations for weird series with elements of #mystery, #crime, #fantasy, and #sciencefiction?
#asknostr #tv #shows #tvshows

2025-10-26 08:58:17 CET

GM #coffeechain!

2025-10-25 10:41:09 CEST

01000010 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100 😔

2025-10-25 09:13:57 CEST

Good morning #plebchain
Even though I'm working, have a great weekend, everyone 🙌

2025-10-16 10:31:17 CEST

Good morning!
I'm trying Jumble on Android with Keychat. It's nice, but I still haven't found a fast, lightweight app alternative that doesn't strain my phone and optimizes data traffic. Jumble also takes a long time to load content at startup.

2025-10-14 22:55:40 CEST

Silence can speak to you.

2025-10-11 11:01:15 CEST

"the sun was behind your hand
it was november, we were cold
one of the trees on the boulevard was dying
the city’s windows were laughing carelessly
we were kissing on every corner
evening had fallen upon the boulevard of mists
it had long fallen upon our shoulders
we were alone, like severed arms
no fires were burning in the mountains
the lighthouses had gone dark
we were searching for each other’s eyes"
- Attila İlhan, a passage from the poem Sisler Bulvarı (Boulevard of Mists)
#poem #poems #quote #quotes #literature #poetry #books

2025-10-11 10:59:31 CEST

"the sun was behind your hand
it was november, we were cold
one of the trees on the boulevard was dying
the city’s windows were laughing carelessly
we were kissing on every corner
evening had fallen upon the boulevard of mists
it had long fallen upon our shoulders
we were alone, like severed arms
no fires were burning in the mountains
the lighthouses had gone dark
we were searching for each other’s eyes"
- Atilla İlhan, a passage from the poem Sisler Bulvarı (Boulevard of Mists)
#poem #poems #quote #quotes #literature #poetry #books

2025-10-11 10:48:17 CEST

GM #coffeechain!

2025-10-08 22:29:14 CEST

"Have you ever seen water burn in sand
I have seen this lifelong moan
In the small inside of big gardens
In one of the pots
I have seen
As if woken from a dream
Perhaps a geranium raised me."
- Edip Cansever, A passage from the poem Ben Ruhi Bey Nasılım (I Mr. Ruhi* How am I)
#poem #poems #quote #quotes #literature #poetry #books
*A Turkish name, meaning spiritual (a sort of)

2025-10-05 17:04:11 CEST

Shortly before my Notesnook subscription was up for renewal, they doubled their fees. Since I don't have auto-renewal, I'm affected and renewing it is currently lower on my list of priorities. Maybe I'll find a better alternative.
#Obsidian (linux and android) + local encryption for sensitive files (#gocryptfs) + #git for synchronization (Codeberg) + Droidfs to view encrypted files on mobile... What do you think? In this scenario, I'm not backing up images. My usage will be text-heavy, like notes, stories, and drafts. Obsidian's extensions also interest me. I've used it before for a while; you could say I took a break.
#asknostr #askstr #notetaking #writing

2025-10-04 11:59:33 CEST

GM #coffeechain, #plebchain!
When I was a kid, I used to see people playing the kemençe and dancing the horon next door in skits and comedy movies/shows. Yesterday night, this absurd event happened to me personally. A lot of people in my next apartment tried to learn horon by watching videos on Youtube.
A modern adaptation to understand horon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYOjK5bHI

2025-10-04 11:41:35 CEST

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I think so. I feel like if there is a new season, it will be a spin-off. I'm not familiar with the manga, but I think the events of season 3 were the end according to the internet.

2025-09-29 02:01:57 CEST

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Same here. The last scene of Season 3 also left me very curious.

2025-09-28 11:38:13 CEST

I didn't check how many episodes there were in total. It was over in a flash! But it looks like they paved the way for another season.
Of course, I started watching before sending the note; otherwise, it would have been too fast for me. :)
#nevent1q…mv8f

2025-09-27 12:44:09 CEST

"That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality."
- Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
#books #quotes #bookstr

2025-09-27 12:25:58 CEST

I had no idea a new season of Alice in Borderland was coming out. I stumbled upon it, and I'm glad I did.

2025-09-27 12:24:15 CEST

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I hope you find a job that makes you happy and is worth your effort. I just changed my job. I'm still getting used to it. Only time will tell if my decision was a good one.
That's a very good suggestion. If I don't take care of things the way you suggest, I get locked up. In other words, I think about everything, but I can't solve anything. I have to deal with one problem at a time.

2025-09-27 12:09:11 CEST

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Could be better :) Life in general has been exhausting lately. So many things are piling up on top of each other. Work on Friday was stressful, too. I'll be relieved when everything is back on track. You?

2025-09-08 21:43:51 CEST

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I didn't know until I saw the hashtag #onlyzap. Now I can understand why it is useful 🙏

2025-09-07 00:08:20 CEST

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Thank you so much! You are very kind.
I published some of my stories on my previous npub, but I neglected to move them here. I will do it sometime. For now you can find some of my stories here: https://kovuk.org/author/hakan/

2025-09-06 21:20:04 CEST

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Unfortunately, yes. There are other tags, of course, but that's where I came across it.
I just checked again, it's not showing up in Amethyst anymore. I think it's been reported enough times (5 times) or something else is interfering. It's still showing up in Primal.

2025-09-06 20:52:03 CEST

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It's nothing compared to zap!

2025-09-06 20:19:04 CEST

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Even if they were pedophiles, I thought they wouldn't reveal it in this way. I wondered if there could be another reason. Otherwise, as you say, it's not surprising that people are not what they seem.
This is also a good lesson: If my gut tells me not to open a video, it doesn't matter who likes it.

2025-09-06 19:32:19 CEST

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Thank you for pointing out the difference. I use Amethyst, which shows different emojis as reactions. I'm going to say reaction instead of like from now on. In the case I'm talking about, it comes out as a heart.

2025-09-05 22:58:16 CEST

Is liking notes without the account holder's knowledge also common on Nostr? A few people who I thought were decent people liked such a note that I am horrified.
And if you automatically like notes from a certain tag, don't do it. The content I'm talking about comes from the most innocent tags possible.

2025-09-04 20:18:33 CEST

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So say we all! 🚀
Likewise, the freedom to say good morning sincerely

2025-09-04 00:22:04 CEST

I needed some support with my Rizful wallet. Not only did they fix it within minutes, but they were also very kind and sincere. Thank you very much @nprofile…m655 🙏

2025-09-03 22:00:15 CEST

"Somewhere down there was her little car, which could take her away again. Journeys end in lovers meeting, she thought; it was my own choice to come. Then she realized that she was afraid."
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson etched Shakespeare's "Journeys end in lovers meeting" in my mind. I find myself saying or thinking it in moments when I feel overwhelmed.
#quotes #literature #books #bookstr #plebchain

2025-09-01 20:28:25 CEST

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Thank you @nprofile…c49d! I've been looking for a ln wallet like this, so I'm trying @nprofile…m655 too.

2025-08-31 18:23:27 CEST

Sedir Adası | Sedir Island
Muğla, Türkiye | Muğla, Turkey
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/7f5428e7a5ed9bb5379293dc692c0076848f9df05405609e00c64ca2e1bc4019.jpeg
#photo #photogpraphy #photostr #art #artstr #ancient #ruins

2025-08-30 11:21:00 CEST

GM and happy Saturday #plebchain
🙌

2025-08-30 11:15:00 CEST

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Hi hi. Want to invest $100 in my wet cat food company and make $450 in a week? I only accept bitcoin. Lets talk about it.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/ecbe6dad5c9bce0b613e9ed29e42144989bd3c782904f542fbf3da8fd157f239.png

2025-08-28 22:57:30 CEST

We have a #Turkish poet, Can Yücel. He translated Shakespeare's "To be, or not to be" as "There is one more possibility, do you think it is to die. "
It's a great localization when you read it in Turkish: "Bir ihtimal daha var o da ölmek mi dersin"
It's too bad that when it's translated back into English, I can't convey the pleasure I got from reading it.
#poetry #quotes #literature

2025-08-28 22:36:38 CEST

After all these years, I've resumed watching Doctor Who. It's very enjoyable. And sad. It's a wonderful combination of the two.

2025-08-28 22:24:43 CEST

To buy, or not to buy,
that is the question:
#asknostr
#nevent1q…2a47

2025-08-28 21:45:29 CEST

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After changing my nsec, I hesitate to try even Damus.

2025-08-28 21:16:42 CEST

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Or it can be a site, an application that will send a deletion request to all known blossom hosts as in the notes.

2025-08-28 21:14:21 CEST

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Thank you very much for your detailed and clear answer as always.
I agree with what you said. Even leaving Blossom aside, anything put on the internet can be easily copied. In this respect, no such media host will offer complete privacy. But it's good that people have even minimal control over their own media.
For example, I was thinking "I may not be able to completely delete my notes, but at least I can delete the image I uploaded to different hosts if I regret it later and somehow disconnect it from my profile". If there was a feature like you said, I could upload some images like that. For most images, it's important to know that they won't be deleted later.

2025-08-25 23:34:37 CEST

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I think this question will affect my answer: Can other hosts copy my uploaded images without my request?
If it works with the same logic as Nostr, the answer is obvious 😁 I just thought this part was more static for some reason. Like pubkey control.

2025-08-25 23:08:31 CEST

In honor of Amethyst's update (or rather, it came to my mind when I saw all those relays), I added a vpn to internal tor. So far everything seems to be fine.
Since I'm using Adguard for Android, I'm trying out Adguard VPN. I'm also open to Socks5 proxy alternatives that are reliable, privacy friendly and won't break my budget, as well as anything you can tell me about Adguard VPN.
(I just want to be able to vpn into the tor network. I've used more robust alternatives when I only used vpn.)
#privacy #cybersecurity #asknostr

2025-08-25 22:50:00 CEST

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New authors and ideas to explore... Thank you very much! Carl Sagan was familiar to me, but the others were people I had never researched thoroughly.

2025-08-11 00:50:15 CEST

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This is what it's like to be accidentally sexist because of the adjective 🤦
Thank you Amethyst for letting me edit it. Unfortunately, my efforts will not show up in other apps. At least let me apologize here.

2025-08-10 22:58:34 CEST

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Do you have a writer who is your lifeline?
When you open a random page from his book, if nothing else, you feel understood...
#asknostr #ask #books #literature
#nevent1q…4vep

2025-08-10 22:48:09 CEST

Good evening #plebchain!
"It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know."
- Georges Perec, A Man Asleep
#quotes #literature #books

2025-08-09 10:10:44 CEST

Good morning and happy Saturday #nostr!
#plebs #plebchain #coffeechain

2025-08-04 00:14:49 CEST

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Thank you very much, everything is clear now🙏 On Amethyst the notifications were already turned off ("None" selected, it doesn't see any service). I'm just saying this as feedback, since I don't see any indication that the app is listening to Pokey.

2025-08-03 23:49:01 CEST

I received a zap notification from #Amethyst, which I downloaded from the Zapstore. I also have Pokey installed. I wonder if something changed, or if it somehow switched to the Play Store version 🤔

2025-08-03 23:14:03 CEST

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You are welcome. I use Android, so Amethyst is my main app. But I also have Primal, Yakihonne and Coracle installed.

2025-08-03 22:46:33 CEST

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Jinx! 😁

2025-08-03 22:44:14 CEST

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I think you're using Primal.
Settings - > Zaps - > Onward 🫡
You can change the message there.

2025-08-03 22:34:25 CEST

Good evening #plebchain!

2025-08-03 22:20:45 CEST

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You're the best. Have a wonderful life with your new friend!

2025-08-03 22:13:39 CEST

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I understand that it can be disgusting for some, but checking cats' toilets regularly helps to detect health problems early. That's why it's better for them to defecate in the litter box instead of in a place where we can't check.

2025-07-31 09:56:13 CEST

GM #nostriches!
#plebs #plebchain #coffeechain

2025-07-27 13:54:08 CEST

On The Nature of Daylight by Max Richter
https://youtu.be/b_YHE4Sx-08
#listening #tunestr #music

2025-07-27 09:52:09 CEST

Good morning, happy Sunday!
#plebs #plebchain #coffeechain

2025-07-24 21:20:34 CEST

Good evening #plebs!
When the ghost of the past haunts you...
https://youtu.be/urRNNvODXfM
#music #listening

2025-07-19 09:30:48 CEST

GM!
#plebchain #coffechain #nostr
Have a nice weekend!

2025-07-18 22:52:52 CEST

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I am so glad I researched to understand the reference 👾

2025-07-17 17:39:28 CEST

Imagine a cat that threw up all over the house repeatedly last night. Now... This cat jumps over the bed and does something smacking with its mouth as it comes towards you. Did she throw up or not? Or will she throw up now? Here is a unique moment of tension.
Note: She is currently under veterinary care and is fine.

2025-07-17 17:29:29 CEST

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Yes, I've had problems with some apps and distros too, but I still like to install apps without touching the rest of the OS. The fact that the number of apps I use is very small is also an important factor in this situation.

2025-07-15 23:56:38 CEST

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As time went on, I always switched to a more durable flavor. I was tinkering and breaking it when it wasn't really necessary, or updates over time would break it. I recently switched from Opensuse Tumbleweed to Fedora Silverblue. Fedora Silverblue (Gnome) is worth a try if Appimags and Flatpaks are enough (they are enough for me). For KDE, Fedora Kinoite.

2025-07-15 22:47:54 CEST

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Thank you very much for your detailed explanation and your efforts. It has been haunting me, now everything is clear 🙏

2025-07-15 22:40:24 CEST

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I may not be qualified for such a job in English. But it is always fun to talk about projects and exchange ideas 🙌

2025-07-15 22:37:49 CEST

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Thank you so much! It certainly is.

2025-07-15 22:33:39 CEST

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Thank you very much. Nice to meet you too!
I thought about translating the stories. I was going to start with the mini stories and see if I could do it, then gradually move on to the longer ones. Unfortunately, I gave up before I could start properly. I was intimidated by the writing style I was using. At the time I felt like I couldn't handle the translation.
I can give a cursory description of my writing by giving examples of New Weird and Slipstream writers. I also like narrative and language games. It's really hard to reach such a readership in Turkish, especially if no one including publishing house can spare an advertising budget. Translating what I write into English can be useful in this respect.
From the beginning, Nostr seemed like a good reason to do it. Maybe this time I'll make it 🤞

2025-07-15 21:34:10 CEST

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Thank you so much! 🙌

2025-07-15 17:30:10 CEST

It seems that #blossom file hosts don't interact with each other very well yet. When I try to mirror images with sakura.oxtr.dev, bouquet.slidestr.net or Primal I always get an error.
cdn.satellite.earth didn't let me upload any images except Amethyst.
sovbit.host allows me to mirror images to nostrcheck.me if I select it as primary host. The opposite is not possible, it cannot be selected as mirror target. When I set it from Primal, as far as I understand, the images appear as different blobs.
blossom.band (free), again cannot be set as mirror. It also does not accept images as mirror from other sources.
So I found the solution to upload images to three hosts at the same time with Sakura, but I guess it's not as easy as uploading from within the app and synchronizing with other hosts every once in a while.
Am I doing something wrong? #asknostr #ask #nostr

2025-07-15 16:59:04 CEST

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Thank you! I hope you are having a great adventure! 🧙‍♂️ Of course I would love to read what you write too

2025-07-15 12:58:14 CEST

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Thank you very much! I was coming and going from time to time, but when I had a situation with my nsec, I decided to make a clean start from scratch 🙌

2025-07-15 12:53:10 CEST

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GM!

2025-07-15 11:40:35 CEST

I wrote my first #introduction almost two years ago. I guess I should write a new one for a new npub.
I am a #literature fan in my mid-thirties and I have a few stories and a short novel published in #Turkish. My dream of writing and sharing has never left me, even when I couldn't do it.
My favorite genres to read, write and watch are #newweird, #fantasy, #sciencefiction, #surreal, #psychodelic and #horror. Of course, this is only part of the list. The ones at the top.
In this account, you will find excerpts from the books I read, the music I listen to, the photos I take from the places I visit, and little snippets of situations I want to share. Of course this is not a promise, there will be other things that come to mind.
It's still great to be here!

2025-07-15 11:11:16 CEST

I'm back!
...with a new npub 🧟
https://cdn.sovbit.host/888b591c5ce464094cbb4e935142371ca23fde4769dc55e3e4422dee26036164