Oddbean new post about login | logout ENS is overlays DNS, this overlays TCP/IP like Tor. Fairly useless without a browser
errrrr.... nostr:note1vdjx7x9cdmmynnfjj36evnvacc8xjz0yll6pke3x8k7k9y6v3xmsf9c5wa
SSH is on top TCP/IP
Was referring to > Fairly useless without a browser I'm pretty sure this design also enables use with browsers when combined with DNS and traffic is allowed to exit into the open internet.
Good luck getting regular niggas to use ssh or socks 😂 I've already tried that.
Good things get wrapped into invisible UX and adopted without notice. "good luck getting regular people to use SSL certificates!"
That's what browsers do. Nostr autists aren't solving any problem unless they write a better browser (than firefox)
This is a very powerful, useful and interesting new development. There's no reason to piss on it because it didn't also rebuild the entire world. Everything doesn't have to be relevant for every normal person on earth in order to be useful and exciting for some (at first).
It doesn't matter if I piss on it or not. It doesn't matter if it's exciting to autists. It needs to be useful for a good chunk of people or it's another joke fad.
We disagree. New things need to be useful to 1 person first. Then 3, then 20, etc. How do you think we got anything?
All software I use was useful to millions of people from the beginning. Browser, media player, terminal emulator. Remember the app economy that didn't happen? Now you know it's cause the modern userbase chose 10 apps and nothing custom. Regardless, what problem does Nostr solve? Talking about bitcoin was never a problem
You tell me what problem Nostr solves, you're spending your scarce time and energy on it. Why?
"until," not "unless"
Semantics 😀
Why do we need this?
So when domains go down or are taken down, access to the services don't go with them
Same reason you need Nostr when "twitter already exists"
But what advantages does this have over Tor or I2p hidden services?
Cats should be skinned many ways. Different approaches are better or worse for different contexts. Also, surprising net-new discoveries are made beyond the frontier when you re-solve a problem with a new stack. Sometimes some property of the stack, in connection with the "already solved problem", reveals novel new territory. (Look at "the microblog UX" getting "re-solved" by Nostr)
Cats should probably not be skinned