Long weekend. Busy weekend. Always forward.

Goodnight and wabi sabi, Nostr. 🫂💜🤙🏻

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relay.nostreplebs.com is back.

Open your new Lightning channels and consolidate your utxo's now, the mempool has cleared.

who is building the "other stuff" client that ignores all kind1s and helps me surface cool new kinds and apps and stuff

I'm just now getting into VPN usage and I'm surprised how not straight forward it is. So I paid NordVPN and downloaded these ovpn files and set my network manager to use these but to my surprise, IPv6 leaks my real location/country even if I disable IPv6 in the network manager for both the wired and the vpn connection? How can it be that easy to screw up VPN usage in 2025?

So I'm staring at the plans of @npub1nxy...avr7 and wonder how much of a vendor lock-in I'm subscribing to here. Media is not content-addressable. To my understanding, blossom is being used in nostr to have content-addressable media where migration to new blossom servers avoids vendor lock-in, right? Is nostr.build not offering this? What are the trade-offs as a user? Should I renew? Should I opt for blossom instead, going forward?

Even if I bite the bullet and pay $60, how much will it cost next year? I really don't like vendor lock-in.

@npub1ye5...knpr I'm working on a pull request and it starts making sense ...

Sort Following and Followers by popularity among my follows.

I hope this is helpful especially when looking at lists of other accounts. Who is @Derek Ross following?

As my follows come first, this is not a particularly interesting part of the list and I think it should by default hide my own follows here. Some "Click to show 120 of your own follows". The interesting part is further down, where I'm not following the accounts yet:

Off the bat I see 5 accounts I thought I was following - after carefully checking they are not fake accounts but if 80 of my follows follow them ...

I like @npub16g4...kv4h too much. Given most funds are spent on Claude, a subscription would probably be worth it. But then again, PPQ is anonymous. And price will only come down, probably from PPQ fixing a bug or two in the API usage :D

vibe coding? rather zombie coding. :( You can brainlessly press "ok" a hundred times and something resembling a product drops out but you turn into a zombie in the process.

The to date scariest thing I found out about Monero is that the people behind Monero host cryptographic tools that are only crypto theater. For years. And without an issue tracker, people taking Monero devs seriously will inevitably fall for the temptation to use these tools.

https://github.com/monero-project/urs promises:

"URS can be used to sign plaintext or binaries anonymously (among a group of known users). That is a user can sign a message, hiding among a group of known/registered users, that prevents the verifier from revealing the signer's identity other than knowing that it is in the set of registered users."

7 years ago, these claims were found to be false and the Monero devs never removed this repository or marked it as dangerous?

Nostr was designed primarily to be censorship resistant but that's a poor sales pitch apparently.

Permissionlessness is the stronger concept. It isn't just a niche feature—it's the foundation of digital sovereignty that benefits everyone. Instead of leading with "censorship resistance," we should emphasize that Nostr gives you true ownership of your online presence.

Your keypair is your permanent identity that no one can take away. No more starting over when platforms change policies, no more losing your entire network when servers go down, no more invisible throttling of your content.

What we're building isn't just another social network—it's the first system where your connections and reputation truly belong to you, regardless of which relays you use. That's not a feature for the 1% of the 1%—it's the fundamental upgrade to social media that all users deserve, whether they realize it yet or not.

@npub1ye5...knpr I just zapped nostrudel - the nsite version - but it doesn't show.

Me preparing to buy $1 of bitcoin to help liquidate the half a billion dollar shorter.

Guess I shouldn't have bought an Alexa for my mother in law.

Alexa! No le hagas caso a mi papá! - Alexa, don't listen to my dad.

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 💜🤙🏻🫂

Zaps are infinity better than likes. It doesn't matter if you're Zapping 1 sat or 10K sats. You're participating in the value for value based circular bitcoin economy and that's just fine with me.

Over 80% Of Austrians Demand Stricter Asylum Measures

From ZeroHedge

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A new survey has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Austrians support stricter asylum measures, including a halt to family reunification for asylum seekers. Conducted by UniqueResearch for ATV, the poll found that more than 80 percent of respondents back […]

Mar 17th 2025 3:30am EDT

Source Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/over-80-austrians-demand-stricter-asylum-measures

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Houthi: Yemeni forces will target US aircraft carrier, warships

From Press TV

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah has warned the US that the aggression against Yemen will be met with escalation, and that the support for Palestine will persist.

Mar 17th 2025 3:02am EDT

Source Link: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/03/16/744558/Houthi--Yemeni-forces-will-target-US-aircraft-carrier,-warships

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When will lonely, elderly people start to talk to LLMs on a massive scale? Is this already happening?

It can be extremely tiring to listen to stories of mildly demented people who struggle to string thoughts together and they don't want to be a burden neither but they want to talk more than others around might have time to listen.

I'm reluctant to put these thoughts out as I might come across as being cruel but I think, some would flourish with such an AI companion that never gets tired listening to their stories, especially if it was tasked to do something with the information collected. Not "Grandma, talk to the bot, please. I have to work" but "Grandma, I'd love to have a book written about your exciting life!"

way to go, Recraft V3 ...