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.

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.

@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 @npub18am...p424 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 ...

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 ...

I have been to many protests and I hear a lot about protesters being paid but how are street protests effective if they are not actually organic? An ad like this inevitably leaks and hurts the cause more than 40 protesters can help it, so why bother? Is it actually only to discredit the protest? Or how do people recruit real fake grassroot protesters?