I'm so out of the loop, on here, that I never even notice when hellthreads happen because even my frens aren't invited.

I'm loyal like a dog. It's arguably both my most-charming and most-infuriating personality trait.

I've been told that it's mannish. Women are supposed to be fickle and focused on trading up, or they undersell themselves. Which is probably true.

It's just not worth it, to do an #infrastructure project and charge too little money because it's automatically a steady stream of work, that never ends, and can sometimes spike up. Each additional user increases the potential workload further and decreases the overall performance of the system.

Better to just live with having fewer users and eat the cost difference, while hoping to eventually grow out of the red.

Crunching the numbers for the #gitserver...

GM ☀️

Okay, the current sign-up list, for the public git server is: @npub1l5s...gx9z @npub1wqf...qsyn @npub1qdj...fqm7 @npub107j...ncxg @npub18pu...a699 @npub15pr...5uyf @npub1636...qpl4 @npub1use...k5ks @npub1fjq...leku @npub15qy...yejr @npub176g...q836 @npub14ag...dadk @npub1a6w...0tyc

Last call today, and then @npub1qdj...fqm7 gets a task ticket from me, to start pricing out possible setups.

Update on the public #gitserver idea. Trying to spit-ball what the fee would be. So that you can decide, if you can afford it.

I CAN BRAID MY HAIR! 🥳

Been seeing her on Pinterest. I thought she was AI, but she's some chick from Grenada. 😂

My DMs used to be full of sleazy, creepy men trying to chat me up. Now they're full of people trying to sell me crypto retirement schemes and begging for money.

You never appreciate what you have, until it's gone. 😏

#biblestr #Christian #parenting

In case, you missed it.

I'm in the rather odd position of posting self-portraits into a feed containing (white and Asian) women half my age, who are much thinner and better-looking than I am. A few of them have all of their clothes on (usually), and a subset of them are even real.

Sometimes I wonder, if I'm annoying everyone with this odd spergy habit (probably), or if the sort of unapologetic realism of a countenance only an artist could love adds some greater depth of humanity to your feed, that otherwise is full of perfect people doing perfect things in perfect places.

I don't know. And I'm too autistic to really care.

So, here's another one.

I want to have some fun, on here, sometimes. You may now commence ranting.

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Kinda strange seeing all of these people prancing and posing, half-naked and oiled-up, in videos taken in glamorous or nature-y places, trying to impress me with the awesome, amazing stuff their bodies can do.

I'd be more impressed by pictures of their kids.

You'd be hard-pressed to find many Nostr builders not running some sort of related infrastructure, like a relay, Lightning node, web server, media server, database service, API, etc. There are concrete reasons for this, inherent to the nature of FOSS development and services, the people it attracts, and the value it adds.

So, the idea that we should all come here and build because we don't need to set up any infrastructure is unconvincing, and mildly upsetting. That only makes sense to people who aren't builders, and shows their indifference to those who build and provide all of this stuff. What in the world do you think we are building on? These are the sort of people who think that they can look up, at the sky, and see Google Cloud.

The argument should be that it is easier to set up the infrastructure, cheaper to run it, and simple to integrate with it. Which is true. At the not-insignificant cost of working in a highly chaotic environment, where you are constantly lectured to by popular npubs who don't know how computers work.

This. Imagine thinking anyone in their right mind would prefer those currencies to dollars.

Also, Bitcoin isn't a market as big as the USD, yet, so trying to onboard the entire world to it, in a short time frame, would completely destroy everyone's economies and lead to a massive drain of wealth from the Bitcoin-poor to the Bitcoin-rich. It isn't possible to speed up Bitcoin printing, just because more people suddenly want it.

Also, pricing things in Bitcoin, would cause the prices of things poor people need -- LIKE FOOD -- to swing wildly and suddenly, causing havoc.

GM

#Alexandria update. 😊

Hello. We have a new feature implemented, in #Alexandria, which might interest some of you.

We have revamped and expanded the index card menu. You now have the ability to display publication details (index metadata) on the cards, including book summaries, ISBNs, and links to the npub profile pages of the publishing npub and the author. (If the author has a npub and is referenced in the 'p' tag, as with @npub1der...xzpc's book, below.)

This allows for publisher and author to share in the credit and the zaps, and to both be notified of interactions with the index.

You also have the ability to open an original URL-source of the publication (usually to a web page, PDF, LaTeX file etc.), even if the publication is also available in event form. Currently, it opens outside the app.

This opens up Alexandria to being a true library catalog of all publications, even those under copyright or where there is no digital version readily available. They can be referenced and interacted with, through the index cards, in a manner similar to GoodReads or other "book review" sites.

This will become more apparent, once we add things like kind 1111 comments, to the index events. For now, we're still revamping the parser and the table of contents, but they should be replaced #thoon. Thank you for your patience and support, while we rebuild, and may you have a good evening.

Happy reading! https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/

@npub1kmw...xqk9 Y'all keep communicating with us per e-mail, and I'm nervous that it's just some scammer. Asking for private information and asking me to click on hyperlinks and stuff.

Could you switch to using Nostr for that, so that we can easily confirm that you're really "you"?

Here is the NKBIP-01 spec for curated publications, for anyone interested. We publish our docs on the implementation we wrote to publish docs.

Because, of course, we do. 🧠

And here's a preview in dark mode, cuz y'all like that.