Happy New Year Roya! 🎉💜


Happy New Year Daniel! 🎉💜


Happy New Year Ava!


Happy New Year! 🎉


Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
   The flying cloud, the frosty light:
   The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
   Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
   The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind
   For those that here we see no more;
   Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
   And ancient forms of party strife;
   Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
   The faithless coldness of the times;
   Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
   The civic slander and the spite;
   Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
   Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
   Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
   The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
   Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-ring-out-wild-bells


Happy New Year 2024! https://image.nostr.build/c78661e1aac46762cab8f43dde573cd70d13a536fd177642c199386038ebaa18.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6c48d137b2460e1959b352763d65f220c789268cacd1ccaa63d505b6b5e293a2.jpg


From the Netherlands in one hour 😉🎉


Happy New Year lovely Marie! 💜🎉🫂


Great! Happy New Year! 🎉


Happy New Year Eshara! 🎉


Happy New Year Derek!


Happy New Year Rabble! 🎉


Happy New Years Nostr.

What a spectacular day to welcome in the new year. Let’s take this time to renew the struggle to build a better common humanity, ending war, occupations, oppression, and borders which divide us. Humans evolved intelligence so that we survive better together, in community. The solutions come from doing the messy work of dismantling old institutions and building new better ones to replace them.

#newyear #aotearoa

https://image.nostr.build/1db619ea32517c8db09c8cc3c307f9f653786c6262d8f38bc95530ca957d703d.jpg


Happy New Year Kat!


Literally doing free work for these companies. nostr:note1khfrg0qwewu84qxk5u59dvu3y4rw5czgl4tmst0p90nu3svyyjaqh3yq96


Best wishes Eshara! 💜


Love walk at night so yes. I’m feeling better 💜🫂


It’s great :)


Good morning Marie! Great view! 💜


Night walking https://image.nostr.build/bd65cb6d2de0dae38343067aa780eb141ef06cf2f374759dd596c46939dc4032.jpg


Tommy, my polyglot nephew 😂 https://image.nostr.build/01c2eb716abb612a78a7e2c21e45ae59cf54d8313fb535ab9abb3c661a1426a1.jpg


https://cdn.satellite.earth/6011daa16075490abe99b641d87513c6509eace0b86ac7dd6e91a7d1c68763d9.jpg
At least for some percent of people glancing at this nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76's diagram would give them a little more insight on how Nostr works. Where should we place it to make that happen?


Time is not an illusion. It’s an object with physical size | Aeon Essays: https://aeon.co/essays/time-is-not-an-illusion-its-an-object-with-physical-size


Happy Birthday @KatieRoss! Enjoy a wonderful day! My best wishes for you! 💜🎉


I’m so bad at bowling 🎳
My children are enjoying this 😥


Hello! Welcome! 🎉


King of the castle

'Grey Squirrel'

#nature #Squirrel  #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #SquirrelPhotography #SquirrelsOfMastodon  #UK

https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/111/666/241/792/059/690/original/55e05f082c1aea0c.jpg


Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered ~ wes angelozzi


So so but don't ask me more 🫂


Good morning Marie! 💜


Re: NOSTR FUNDING..

In my humble opinion, people should seek profit.

We do have a lot of funding available from OpenSats (new grants approved every week), HRF, Angels and VCs. But they won't make you "rich". PHILANTHROPY and/or VC, are great means to get boosted but are not sustainable long term. (aside from protocol and research work, which is basically academic work and take the academic philanthropy route)

Profit is freedom, profitable ppl don't need to ask for permission.

SUSTAINABLE and ETHICAL revenue positive businesses last generations. And very satisfying if you don't mind me saying.

Timing is EVERYTHING! We are ultra-early in nostr, almost too early. Almost everything you see around you won’t be here in the same shape/form in a year or two. Find ways to cockroach the early days, survive another day. Build expertise, build value, build IP, build relationships. All this fun and pain of the early days can have very good returns for those who survive.

I'm here (and many others), If you need help, advice or just a capitalist to scream at.

😘


The grants have been huge for getting nostr going but it can’t ever be the long term path to sustainability.

I think the easiest path is either a recurring in app payments for SaaS services. The SaaS model doesn’t need massive scale to sustain the providers.

People think that pro or paid features need to be really valuable to cause people to pay but that’s a mistake. It’s more like giving people something special so they’re appreciated or relieves an annoyance. Slack has tons of features for paid users but it’s really just being able to see and search your past conversations that causes people to pay. Plus things businesses need that individuals don’t, like more control and compliance.

We don’t need huge sums of money to support our current ecosystem, but we do need models that work with thousands of users per app instead of millions.


Thank you!


There is no recipe because I create it with the available ingredients. The base is crushed granola and firmed with a little butter. The cream is the mixture of 200cc of coconut milk, 4 eggs, a little brown sugar and 1 large lemon. I baked it on the granola base for 8 minutes. Once warm, I added the fresh berries.


Tarta de Leche de Coco con Berries
#Foodstr https://image.nostr.build/78172dedce005b7652a65929dc7a23d61efba25402002142de25ac6f66a4635d.jpg


Salmón al Ajo Tostado, acompañado de Risotto de Champiñones

#Foodstr https://image.nostr.build/d8a21680ce5b6ae30cd7f9c90c91d916a3304d31ef5e6387a81b3d94b6ff6148.jpg


I came to say the same thing 😂😂


🤩 nostr:note1y5wqhmngk2scgms6up87s6j4frr6n4eka543mmuzzzrmfp92p3psck5n28


👀 The Flippening 😆🐬🌊
https://video.nostr.build/14b2e0a48c6af35f9b2824049b0619c378fa1c180fd0e2f1f2b61da5f01be79c.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=544x960&blurhash=%5DCEDPSxatRg4R-%25jj%40V%3Fs%3Aof%250j%5DW%3FRjRP%5Ejofadoft7Dht6t8ogaeOZM%7BRjWBkCSjt7WARjofpJogofofadj%3Df5xbbIog&x=7c5fda5161bc0ce4be25e73e8a96efa60456c1ab6bc78602214e9c1b668c724c
#GrowNostr #Uncharted


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂
Long weekend ahead and all at home are beginning to wake up.
Happy Friday to everyone!


Green dragontail butterfly 🦋 https://video.nostr.build/473817f03f101e154b9bda482d448d79967b7644aa2aaf872b67fb6cf77422ef.mp4


I like rain...thunders...not really
That said, I'll try to fall asleep again.

Goodnight ✨💜


The point of this post was to let people know damus’ current runway, we are not “giving up”, I was simply giving some perspective on how damus’ current funding strategy is not going to be sustainable long term and we will be looking at alternatives. “likely the last year” is just referring to the uncertainty around the business model and funding.

Damus has had amazing support this past year from individual users, opensats, hrf, which has been unimaginably helpful for getting damus to where it is today.

The feedback and ideas on this post have been very helpful, and will be taking everything into consideration for 2024 🫂

Thanks for putting up with my dramatic notes 😆 nostr:note1l2s7wyqg5xz7ke6t20p03t9awk629utr6wxjjmg7k4cqr0eflrdql5p5ke


Nostr wouldn’t be where it is without Damus. If this project were to get phased out, that would be a massive blow to Nostr.

Speaking strictly from Primal’s perspective, we *need* projects like Damus to be successful. If we are to make a credible argument that Nostr is different from the legacy platforms, users need to have many good choices of clients and services.

One year is a long time in Nostr terms, and I am optimistic that Will and the team will figure this out. But if/when Damus and other projects introduce paid tiers, please consider the bigger picture when deciding whether to sign up. You won’t be making a decision just for yourself. At this early stage your support might help some projects survive, as well as change the trajectory of Nostr itself.

nostr:note1l2s7wyqg5xz7ke6t20p03t9awk629utr6wxjjmg7k4cqr0eflrdql5p5ke


¡Feliz Cumpleaños! Hope you’re enjoying a wonderful day! 🥳💜


Good afternoon 💜


It is becoming evident that I will have to cut my holiday by a week. At least virtually 😕


Nada como un hijo ignorándote cuando le dices “Churro de mi corazón”. Sí, soy de esas mamás 😌


Protocols take time to adopt, but they don't die easily & Nostr doesn't rely on any company or person. That's the beautiful of nostr.

This year, we built a lot of cool stuff. Now, we have to polish them, make them more useful and user-friendly.

Even if only one app succeeds, the entire Nostr will succeed. keep building & improving.


Researchers come up with better idea to prevent AirTag stalking

Solution relies in part on cryptography practice of secret sharing to maximize privacy.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/researchers-come-up-with-better-idea-to-prevent-airtag-stalking/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/658/182/701/629/539/original/7e4194396f40c4e3.jpg


Thank you.

We love Damus though. In many ways Damus is still ahead of Primal. I think we motivate each other to keep getting better. Nice to see how much both apps have improved recently. Great momentum all around on Nostr. 2024 is going to be lit. 🚀


My Nostr predictions for 2024

Today marks one year since I joined Nostr. It’s been a crazy year, but I have a feeling that 2024 is going to be much crazier. Here are some predictions:

1. Nostr social media clients will become insanely good. By the end of the year we will surpass the legacy social media clients in terms of UX and features, making them look like relics of the past.

2. More lightning wallets will implement Nostr integration. By the end of the year Nostr will become a de facto standard public lightning directory.

3. The bitcoin bull run will bring more users to Nostr, adding more gravity to the network.

4. At some point, a massive new cohort of users will join Nostr. We won’t be ready for them. Relays and other services (indexers, media hosting, etc.) will struggle to support them. After some hiccups, the Nostr ecosystem will adjust.

5. With the increased network activity, spammers will return in force. They will be sophisticated and relentless, putting all of our spam mitigation services to the test.

6. Long form notes will become much bigger on Nostr.

7. At least one “other stuff” content type will take off in a meaningful way.

8. Nostr’s censorship resistance capabilities will get tested in a major public episode.

9. The AI community will get much more interested in Nostr. They will be attracted by the idea that open source language models, combined with Nostr’s open social graph and publicly accessible data - could actually democratize AI.

10. By the end of the year everyone - even the haters - will realize that Nostr is going to win.

11. nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx will accuse me of not being bullish enough.

Anyhow, GM ☀ and Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻


Good morning everyone! 🌻💜🫂


CAN'T STOP.

WON'T STOP.


💯 nostr:note185sdqvpdgqll62znfk8ple2cr7ys5fk7eks23d762r6ywzzl997q9exnwc


Every accent ever 🤌🏽🤌🏽 https://video.nostr.build/fcbc628c277ce615b20e246a475bf3b03b219dab47552303c5a50a08a7292704.mp4


. nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6  has a lot of awesome nostr projects that don’t get enough attention:

- khatru: super modular relay library. Can be used to build lots of cool relay experients such as https://pyramid.fiatjaf.com
- Eventstore: an abstraction around nostr databases, one backend is very similar to nostrdb/lmdb called badger https://github.com/fiatjaf/eventstore
- njump: cool static note renderer that uses eventstore as its database https://github.com/fiatjaf/njump
- Nostr-tools: the swiss army knife of nostr javascript libraries https://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-tools
- Nak: command line tool for creating nostr events and bech32 nostr objects (nevent, nprofile) https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak
- wikistr: a wikipedia-style nostr client https://github.com/fiatjaf/wikistr

he doesn’t always like being in the spotlight but the work he does is some of the most important for the overall health of the protocol. thank you fiatjaf! Excited for what’s in store for next year 🎉


psa: there's been a lot of uneducated sexist transphobic bigotry going on around Trudeau putting tampons in the men's bathrooms.

i can take edgy jokes with the best of them, but there is a line.

some are making pretty hateful humiliating memes directed towards Trudeau and trans-masc people and are acting like it's really about taxes.

it's not about taxes. tampons in the mens room are essential supplies, like soap, toilet paper, and tampons in the ladies room.

there are other areas to cut taxes. so get real. this is about transphobia.

i am blocking the accounts of anyone spreading similar transphobic, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic hate speech bullshit disguised as "jokes"

i fight daily for people to have the right to speak their minds, but it becomes a whole other issue when it turns to hate speech.

fyi: hate speech is defined as “any form of expression through which speakers intend to vilify, humiliate or incite hatred against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, religion, skin color, sexual identity, gender identity, ethnicity, disability or national origin.”

i condemn hate speech, but i defend the right to say it.

to those who would say they're just memes, just jokes, i say, these kinds of "jokes" taken too far are nothing more than ignorant, or intentional hate transmissions in disguise.

as always, be cool or gtfo.

timeline cleanse in 3, 2, 1...

#cybersecgirl


nostr is special, because it's a protocol that's built by us for us. however, we must also remember that this also means that it's paid for by us too. we must zap the devs more. i am going to focus on this more in 2024.


This will likely be the last year of damus. Will try my best to make this thing sustainable, but nostr clients don’t make money and I once funding runs dry its over as I can only burn saving for so long. Glad I was able to help play a small part in this regardless of what happens. Going to give it my all next year to try to keep the dream alive. Thanks for coming along for the ride ✌


Por una cabeza
https://open.spotify.com/track/3mGkPsZbHEBf8ZT1ExZnww?si=fFK6dCmNT7myHZ07OaF7gA


En un bar argentino, con música en vivo… tangos ☺


👀 The famous Red River in the valley of Cusco, Peru 🤙
https://video.nostr.build/66bbdd4cc40c369c4e13be8cf0e4241f7776305852714229ac0ce3693294e9b1.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=544x960&blurhash=%5DBG%25%2BE%3Dg0K5PF%5D00%24R%3Dz%24%2BNFni5*bbEL%24j0L%7DZ%7D%5B%24*R*V%7C0xIn%5ER%5E7%7DukV0xIoJ-0e%3Dy%25MFZ%23no%7DNa-CW9EL%23m-CoeofIo&x=da19e3895a9e26342dfe314de0b4e5b73d3cceae08e0fd68147bb5ad93549440
#GrowNostr #Uncharted


English still rules the world, but that’s not necessarily OK. Is it time to curb its power? | Michele Gazzola | The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/27/english-world-power-language-linguistic-justice


Intellectual and emotional compatibilities are what remains in the long run.


Don’t sell your #bitcoin to Wall Street 🤝 https://image.nostr.build/7c8803c283756b92e45e60ab422d1a32e620c20895ea70d36c8602da89d236d9.jpg


Faltó cargar esta foto… https://image.nostr.build/52fa09c184cb1f38e7c2b724c7ee9efaa5aeee11486155015e95e68513d30f8b.jpg


Nadie sabía https://image.nostr.build/3e3cfc564a7f3c9783480f38b8d034dd68c5e32f4dadbe3d17bd515220e1f489.jpg


“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” —Nelson Mandela


On the nature of daylight
https://open.spotify.com/track/58vWVeAtv2LKwlYyRLPWV5?si=QkR2bys8S0uUcbigsbUlyA


“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn” —Orson Welles


Yoga cat! 😂
(Namaste 🙏)


Merry Christmas!
Rest well and enjoy this time with your lovely family!
See you next week! 💜


“ …this gendered pattern of downward mobility shows how stereotyped beliefs, which tend to see caring or creative professions as more "feminine," and technical and business professions—and the aspiration for economic rewards in general—as more "masculine," may affect career choices.” (UK)

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-women-privileged-backgrounds-pursue-prestigious.html


“Portrait de la jeune fille en feu”
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
https://youtu.be/R-fQPTwma9o?si=guL1zTwdTNfCZfcr nostr:note1z0xagejagghyjd5ukazfyju5rpkwh74rczvuquwgczfq7wgnjalqumxtqx


¿Qué película veremos hoy?


The domain nostrverified.com expired about a week ago, rending all those that use them for their Nostr address to be invalid. Scammers can now impersonate these people with ease. Be careful out there.
https://i.nostr.build/aJR6.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x257&blurhash=H76%40..%7EXV%3DMxn%24xan%25M_Ri%3Ft%3FbohIobItRWVNGR*&x=ba6db6ccb5f34536529d4bbac19b135ae297d0b5afd87fef00ace2fb038ae8c4


Of course 🙃 nostr:note1y9cht8e89wdhhk5l2v7z9skyaqhy8fz9fdu82ay7wrkd8dltjg6qykegl4


Good morning Boston! Merry Christmas!


What we've got here is failure to communicate

https://tidal.com/track/258404193


Good morning! https://image.nostr.build/8c09b5b1c12f7e0aa44fd267d386d344c53e4d4f3c81a81f29f4e61831c210f6.jpg


After two days of Christmas dinners —Latin and European— fasting is a necessity 🤦♀


Merry Christmas! 🎄💜


Congratulations! 🙌


🫂 Merry Christmas!


Love pistacchios 🤩


¡Feliz Navidad Pablo! ¡Mis mejores deseos para ti y tu familia!


"War is Over" — Christmas Truce, 1914.
https://video.nostr.build/a103a5468f8b5804af2517b13cdc6ef10b1df46ff745210ba440fca9f45e0c51.mp4


A shout out to all parents with little ones that will open a gift and become bored with it before you even put it together, moving on to the next gift, asking you to now put that gift together, and then starting the cycle over again. 🥹


Merry Christmas Guy


Yes. Too much food on Christmas Eve 😉


💜 nostr:note1yws089d60ru39emj2jntnlf9k79wj9rp39rvfg7t28jpn573vsqss9hawe


My niece made pancakes for me 😊 https://image.nostr.build/e7b77171016bc22221ce5a0b54e9a8e8eb066e3d04835af43400d1d522c7b07c.jpg


A lovely little sunny day here. Lot of light rain sometimes too so my kind of day 😄


Merry Christmas Kat!


The final lines from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism:

“But there remains also the truth that every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning; this beginning is the promise, the only "message" which the end can ever produce. Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identical with man's free-dom. Initium ut esset homo creatus est —"that a beginning be made man was created" said Augustine.
This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.”

(Meaning: the world can always be other than it is if we decide to act.)


Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38757815 )

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-is-now-the-12th-largest-economy-in-the-world/


Happy Xmas
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ywIwR9KE9ul5bAbC4IuUB?si=mgGNA8OSRhiigEEkRv6oYA


Merry Christmas Derek!


Merry Christmas Eshara! 🎄💜🫂


Merry Christmas! Thank you for sharing all of these videos and photographs! 🎄💜


So have you never eat something like that in Mexico?


Ha


Something interesting will happen tomorrow. Tune in.


Merry Christmas Marie!


Merry Christmas!


Happy Christmas Eve for some of us and Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄💜🫂


Happy Christmas Eve to you too!


Flipping out 🐬🎉🐳 https://video.nostr.build/16bd388c186bd639baa0861c20cb34ceeb441d4d7c4625290c4e15c578ecec64.mp4


Good morning! 🎄💜🫂


Goodnight! ✨💜🫂


Good morning Marie! (Goodnigth for me). Have a wonderful Christmas Eve! 💜🫂


As we wrap up 2023, it's time to starting thinking about what industries and practices we would like to kill in 2024.


It’s quiet here today… maybe the time zone :)


A quiet win for the Apple camp.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-quietly-released-an-open-source-multimodal-llm-in-october/


It’s cold :)
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dGnYIeXmHdcikdzNNDMm2?si=0hqPAKKcQFCXQXABcrJ3DQ


Good morning/afternoon! 🎄💜


Good one!


AI Can Diagnose Childhood Autism from Retinal Photos with '100% Accuracy'

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38738106 )

https://petapixel.com/2023/12/20/ai-can-diagnose-childhood-autism-in-eye-photos-with-100-accuracy/


Goodnigth! ✨💜🫂
After 24hrs, finally, I’m on my flight 😴


GM Dan


Have a great day! See you on the other side/ hemisphere! 😊


More grants. More NIPs. More freedom.

https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-grants-december-2023


Beautiful! Enjoy!


Meta has increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook.

Our new report on Meta's systemic censorship of #Palestine-related content: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship-palestine-content


🫂 thanks my friend

Lately I’ve enjoyed finding cool shots that involve the moon or sunlight and reflections of city buildings and glass. Been meaning to share a bunch here but it’s been a busy week(s). Here’s one more though 🤙 https://image.nostr.build/36138e50f41ad96897e2d396989820668350e11f2497f39df2f0128a9dec19ec.jpg


Amazing 🙏🏼

nostr:note14g8ge3ls68gulp7g5rccra3863aemg8h85x8nxmtz03phrcj4eeq6sn58n


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂

https://open.spotify.com/track/75jf0qL6qPav1okxNpE9bk?si=Gycr6MRfTqu1FPXygLJggg


Y’all are crazy with this zapping and boosting 😍 ALL I know is ⚡=💛 and I’m feeling it from all over the damn world! 🌎 #bitcoin changes lives and disrupts industries -  thank you 😁 for letting me be a part of it 💕

Some interesting info…

Tunestr.io (zappers) 3,262,953
RSS (boosters) 3,650,868
CashAPP (unknown origin) fiat $145.50
Venmo fiat $48.95

 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

So… who wants to do it again?

This time we are going to get #LOUD nostr:npub1a377f258tzafuzdgezwjw4aplg8ze3suyzm40t6j4czcjvwp5vls5d5r4w nostr:npub1a6c3jcdj23ptzcuflek8a04f4hc2cdkat95pd6n3r8jjrwyzrw0q43lfrr nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 nostr:npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3 nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac nostr:npub13ql75nq8rldygpkjke47y893akh5tglqtqzs6cspancaxktthsusvfqcg7 nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 nostr:npub1wxl6njlcgygduct7jkgzrvyvd9fylj4pqvll6p32h59wyetm5fxqjchcan nostr:npub1h8gzew8am6cezuq7cpjgudldra40hgnruqrqlsrqnxnzs5wjtczqztps02 nostr:npub168am76g6fq2xp8e86pm96f5hwpqswf97sw879k0w26f3d0nc5g7qfa7fn7 nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg nostr:npub1t6njrhtc9q3f5wdrwfrhpypq3kes5mpdx4u4rw9w2pxjanuxcpkqveagv3 nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc nostr:npub1tftc33ttam85wraffce62cgtvvjrmttquqlv6a0agtfm5nl4vues82xar5 nostr:npub1t4nlqcdc4ga3c8ktaxvlp5p3jnkl54l99vzc48pm6plscpxd2kns3ngrh7 nostr:npub1sc0cepe6yzpct3dflc86nd990lrtvfmsm5zk8safxpjd5plnwyus536n3d nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu https://video.nostr.build/beeef0781512d4a31139436c64c8aa646dc8e0e25565558cf272c4351208d1f5.mp4


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂


Tunestr is born.

Take it away, nostr:npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy

https://welcome.tunestr.io/


Putting the Cherry on Top of night one of live music V4V.

nostr:npub1h8gzew8am6cezuq7cpjgudldra40hgnruqrqlsrqnxnzs5wjtczqztps02 nostr:npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy https://video.nostr.build/e18e91603a05fb56ce23e55f0377d1cf6a695dd3e3ba1e087f296d27d0dcbc14.mp4


Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉

Like YouTube, Flare lets you upload, view, comment, and like videos from your favorite creators. BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree 🤗

Since Flare is built on Nostr, you are free to serve your content from anywhere and consume content from any kind 34235 client you'd like.

Check it out at https://www.flare.pub/ 🔥
https://v.nostr.build/VygA.mp4


Come watch history happen

https://tunestr.io


Fine, thank you. A hiccup during the day, but nothing I can't take care of. 💜🫂


Good morning Marie! Ánimo 💜


Cuatro clavos en el mismo neumático. Supongo que la idea era que me detuviera en el camino 😒


On the standup call with nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch people were talking about their pets and I realized something about Aotearoa New Zealand. Here, having a pet, is a symbol of wealth. Only the wealthy are able to own pets.

New Zealand has very expensive real estate. The cost of housing in relationship to salaries is some of the highest in the world. This sucks, and could easily be fixed. The high cost of housing is due to two factors, first the regulation around construction, and then also immigration. Regulation and permissions means that despite the country being mostly empty with tons of land, it’s very hard to build new housing, especially dense housing like apartment buildings. The second issue is immigration. New Zealand has a policy of focusing on attracting high income professionals as immigrants, they don’t let construction workers easily come in as temporary or long term work to residency visas. This wouldn’t be so bad, construction jobs would go to locals. But there’s a freedom of movement agreement with Australia which allows New Zealand citizens to very easily live and work across the ditch. Australia has a bigger economy with lots of exports so salaries there are higher. This means a lot of the working class has moved or does move in search of higher salaries. The last smaller issue is smaller economies of scale for building materials also drives up costs.

It means that housing is very expensive. The median house costs $900k NZD, but the median after tax salaries are $49k, meaning it takes 18 years of all income to pay for a house / apartment. You basically have to be wealthy or have family money in order to buy a house.

Landlords are allowed to unilaterally ban all pets. Most do. I suspect there are restrictions on how much they’ll charge for damages, or if they just don’t to deal with it. When i searched in Wellington for a place with three bedrooms and allowing pets, I found 2 listings for the entire city.

So, in order to own a pet you’ve either got to do it clandestinely, which is tricky because landlords do inspections of rental properties every 3 months, or you own your own home.

Pets aren’t expensive in New Zealand, but being able to own one is. Renters in rural areas are more likely to be allowed to pets, but in cities it’s basically not allowed.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-09-2022/the-absence-of-rights-for-renters-with-pets-is-just-cruel

It was even a major issue in the last election! The right announce they’d change the policies, but their primary funders are landlords, so I don’t expect things will get better as landlords don’t want to allow pets.

https://news.google.com/search?q=pets%20election%20renters%20new%20zealand&hl=en-NZ&gl=NZ&ceid=NZ%3Aen

What is an oddly unique symbol of wealth in your country?


Exactly one year ago, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s proposed the “Nostrich” I created as the official #nostr mascot and logo.

Three minutes later, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m tweets the nostr:npub1khd34txqv7s9vdgvfl925r6ytj8j4janalpq08z342ap7dwds3jskny9x4 image.

The rest, as they say, is history. https://i.nostr.build/l9kB.jpg  nostr:note19dazj8tfcpl42gurwctxxj5lrq4t9qel9g7wyycjhrzqp93lxe4sqafzzg


Priorities nostr:note1ygcd45dekkwq28e28ncfhggzy8qlyuhqez7094kqtpy9f4kt2rxsdgnj0c


Good morning! Have a wonderful day! 🌻💜🫂

https://open.spotify.com/track/40Jfw11e7YAyNm9Mjah6aY?si=4Xugxr5nTSa-bAlv8L-hGg


Extremely excited about this. Here's a first look at Coracle's upcoming "group mode". It enables you to white-label coracle, and center it around a particular (public or private) group. However, the normal discoverability features still exist, which makes it a great bridge for introducing normal people to the wider nostr network!

https://v.nostr.build/l9lw.mp4


“Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping threaten global trade”
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/12/19/the-us-navy-confronts-a-new-suez-crisis


The Wavlake Top 40 was always intended to be just one, introductory way to recommend new music to people. It seemed logical — just count how many sats each track earned within a certain period of time and show the results (we’ve been using a 30-day window since January). When we first launched, this seemed like a good enough place to start. The idea of putting your music everywhere on the internet for free was — and still is — a kind of crazy idea. The Top 40 was a familiar way to show people how this could work.

I’m now realizing value for value is only going to succeed if fans are even more involved. With so much music out there, it’s impossible for casual listeners to discover new music without a little help. We need curators — true enthusiasts — out there showcasing the things they love for us all to hear. And those curators need to be a part of the value stream. Podcasts like Boostagram Ball, Sidestream Music, and UpBeats are some early, innovative examples of how effective this mechanic can be — where the curator is rewarded for their work alongside the artists they feature. This doesn’t have to take the form of a podcast, of course. We can imagine this playing out on blogs, videos, any medium… but right now, these new podcasts work. They feel like radio, which is familiar and proven. Only now, with zaps, it’s even better.

Things have evolved a lot more quickly than we ever imagined and it's exciting. This concept — of a publicly available music library with a standard payment protocol baked in — is starting to show its power.


"There's a lot of things you need to get across this universe. Warp drive... wormhole refractors... You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold”. —Dr. Who


“El mal del siglo” se publicó originalmente en “El libro de versos”, el único libro que José Asunción Silva dejó listo para publicar antes de su suicidio.  Cuando la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia y el Ministerio de Educación publicaron este volumen en 1946, Silva ya era considerado uno de los principales poetas de la historia literaria del país.

Según el escritor Miguel De Unamuno "es Silva mismo quien nos habla del desaliento de la vida que nacía y se arraigaba en lo íntimo de él".

A modo de conclusión y respuesta a los males de la existencia que evoca el poeta, su texto termina con una afirmación contundente: "¡lo que usted tiene es hambre!" Que De Unamuno interpreta como: "Hambre de eternidad, de vida inacabable, de más vida".


Happy birthday Eshara! Hope you have a great day! 🥳🎉🫂


There have been many stories of companies giving up user data to stalkers and other criminals pretending to be cops with emergency data requests, but this one stands out because it's so utterly shambolic. The stalker submitted his request using a protonmail address FFS.

https://www.404media.co/verizon-gave-her-data-to-a-stalker-this-has-completely-changed-my-life/


Primal for iOS v1.1 is now live on the App Store.

Everything should be faster, smoother, and more reliable. Hope you’ll enjoy the shiny new image viewer. Please let us know if you run into any issues and what you would like to see in the upcoming releases. Enjoy! 🤙💜

https://apps.apple.com/app/primal/id1673134518


🎉 HRF is excited to announce its Q4 round of Bitcoin Development Fund grants 🎁

💰 $500,000 to 18 projects across areas such as global education, Bitcoin Core, mining decentralization, and support for devs in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

One grantee is Mostro, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange created by Venezuelan developer Francisco Calderon. It is designed to facilitate censorship-resistant financial transactions under authoritarian regimes.

📚 MyFirstBitcoin, a non-profit in Central America, is another recipient. They offer an open-source Bitcoin education program. With HRF’s support, they’ll be able to increase their international expansion, bringing crucial knowledge to more closed societies.

Arabic Hodl is making Bitcoin education more accessible to the more than 400 million Arabic-speaking people worldwide. Hodl’s project includes creating how-to guides, privacy tutorials, educational podcasts, and foundational Bitcoin literature in Arabic.

🌐🔍 Netblocks receives support for their vital work in monitoring global internet restrictions. Continuous internet monitoring is crucial for activists and journalists to maintain their freedom of expression, access to information, and safety. Strong internet is also important for financial freedom.

HRF is funding developer Lorban for his work on StratumV2. Stratum V2 enables mining pool users to select transactions for proposed blocks, instead of relying on templates from pools, increasing Bitcoin’s censorship resistance. ⛏

John Carlson's efforts to improve the Bitcoin Core App project is also receiving support. Through this work, he hopes to lower technical barriers and make Bitcoin transactions more accessible to a wider audience, starting with users on Android devices.

Area Bitcoin, founded by Carol Souza and Kaka Furlan, is expanding its Brazilian educational content across Latin America. The HRF funding will enable translations of their resources into Spanish and English. 📚🌎

🇳🇮In Nicaragua, Berta Valle is focusing on Bitcoin education for human rights defenders in Latin America. Her project will empower dissidents and civil society leaders with Bitcoin to help them become financially resilient against oppressive regimes.

Bitshala in India is creating a hub of Bitcoin knowledge and community. With HRF's support, they'll provide tutorials, technical training, and resources for budding Bitcoin developers in the country. 🇮🇳🌱💡

HRF is supporting hack.bs in Italy. With the grant, hack.bs is establishing a cypherpunk hackerspace that will bring together locals and global experts in the areas of financial freedom and the defense of privacy. 🇮🇹🛡

Bitcoin Deepa is nurturing the Bitcoin community in Sri Lanka. HRF funding will enhance their educational efforts and promote Bitcoin adoption among local merchants. 🇱🇰💼

🌍Exonumia translates Bitcoin educational content into African languages like Shona, Malagasy, Amharic, Kiswahili, and Lingala. Funding will support their efforts to expand to more languages, raise awareness of Bitcoin, and grow financial-freedom oriented communities.

HRF is supporting L0la L33tz’s efforts to create a Bitcoin privacy guide for beginners, with a special focus on activists, dissidents, and NGOs in hostile environments. We look forward to publishing and sharing this document in 2024. 🌐🛡

HRF is awarding a grant to Groundswell in the UK. Groundswell supports Bitcoin education for refugees and diaspora communities, particularly from the Middle East. The project will host workshops, practical training, and help refugees (plus their families) receive their first Bitcoin. 🇬🇧🌍

⛏HRF is supporting Kulpreet Singh's work on Braidpool, a proposed peer-to-peer mining pool. By allowing miners to build their blocks and reducing pool operators’ grip on payouts, Braidpool is designed to enhance Bitcoin’s censorship resistance and decentralized nature.

HRF is proud to support SeedSigner developer Keith Mukai. Funds will facilitate MicroPython research and development to enable operations on affordable microcontrollers. This will eliminate Raspberry Pi dependencies, making SeedSigner more robust and accessible. 🔐

Bitcoin++, a developer-focused conference series around the world. Funding will cover educational efforts, general conference expenses, as well as travel expenses for developers from authoritarian countries.

Bitcoin Atlantis, a conference in Madeira. HRF funding will help human rights defenders, civil society leaders, and educators working in dictatorships to attend the event to share their experiences with thousands of Bitcoin builders, creators, and educators. 🇵🇹🌊

With these grants, HRF continues to push the boundaries of financial freedom, privacy, and human rights through Bitcoin. Stay tuned for more updates on these exciting initiatives. We’re looking forward to greater innovation in 2024! 🚀🔐
🌐

Hopeful applicants can find the BDF application here: https://hrf.org/devfund


One year ago today, I started NostrPlebs.com. I'm not going to go into all of the details as I've talked about this numerous times over the last year and most of you all know this story as well as I do. Therefore, I will keep this very short.

1) I would never have been able to do accomplish my goals without the help of nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj who wrote the registration and management application side of things about a week after I launched. Thank you Semi.

2) A very special thank you to nostr:npub1rq9x6sk86e8ccw2cm8gsm4dyz9l24t823elespupaxjnzdk026fsca2r93 <3 She was the very first person to offer to pay me in sats for setting her up with a Nostr address. She inspired me to do more than just offer a Nostr address to a few close friends.

3) NostrPlebs.com would not be the success that it is, without the support of all of our customers and friends over the past year. Thank you for all of your support that helped us grow. We registered nearly 6,000 Nostr addresses over the past year. I still can't believe that.

One year down, a lifetime of impact to come for https://NostrPlebs.com. This anniversary is just the beginning!


Supply-driven inflation? Perhaps


Fears of higher oil prices after Red Sea attacks

Analysts warn delays on the key trading route risk pushing up energy prices following missile strikes. #press

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67758126?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA&utm_source=press.coop


Even criminals can be pragmatic beings.


"Artificial intelligence will likely impact students throughout their lives. The school environment  presents a good opportunity to help them understand some of the benefits and flaws of such tools. Instead of demonizing it, schools should help students by teaching them how this potentially useful technology works and when it’s appropriate to use it. "

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/best-serve-students-schools-shouldnt-try-block-generative-ai-or-use-faulty-ai


So agree. The best approach is to teach them how to use it critically and ethics.


Good morning!🌻💜🫂


No more reading about bias 😴


🙃 https://image.nostr.build/a3d136a051376b4f376f75d554363a6433e4f1d1b033a1d50e97bb236ab568b0.jpg


Thank you 💜


Goodnight ✨💜🫂


GN 💜


The film is continuing of the Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy. That’s all I can say to avoid spoilers.
This is the director: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Kaurism%C3%A4ki


Is there a recency bias? Yep


You just break someone heart


Has anyone heard Magnetic Fields? They have a unique sense of humour... it is inevitable to smile when listening to some of their lyrics.


Why not?


Are you organising the party? :)


Blur!
https://open.spotify.com/track/7FSzJQV6thyoQptFCUTV9c?si=SGJAY8BASdKEFjBqy2rxDQ


beware of scammer nostr:npub1efhkvhcltc75y2h3pd0cc4eskgs49hzr8l3cf66h5wh7xjmlgkhq7jf9wg

don’t trust, verify


I haven't read this one yet because it got lost on the way to my house 😕 Having read his previous books, I have no doubt that I will enjoy it, which is why I recommend it. For reference, I include a review from the NYT (I haven't read it because I never read them until after reading the book).

#Bookstr

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/books/review/benjamin-labatut-the-maniac.html https://image.nostr.build/e8109e2c959f4d74fb27df3b4737b15154e699069e789f22056806a5e484e327.jpg


She is a fantastic storyteller. This is a collection of short stories and, as always, it keeps you in suspense until the end. I pick up any of her books and don't put it down until I finish it in one sitting.

#Booknostr https://image.nostr.build/7bf9d28e49b0e80ff4a988c2de5ed0ddf4b4f17bf05915575a1371f7511046b6.jpg


If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. In part, it's about money. Built from four 'books' that lead you to a final discovery. Everything fits together perfectly and nothing is as it seems. Originally written in English by an Argentinian author.

#Bookstr https://image.nostr.build/02e0355218515271162bf9c4569d85fb56687534ddbd81d31902961a89abace4.jpg


Hallelujah
https://open.spotify.com/track/2TOjLvePl2m3lzzhvAzdhS?si=3z0Ri8XkQJyMXohbc1IW3g


Keep an eye out tomorrow for a surprise ✨ https://m.primal.net/HUST.png


Idem nostr:note13485hppu09363a9cmmma98gen4k4m8dklm7lrhfluhlnest8ln7s5q9hv4


Blackbird amongst the berries

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/111/597/284/537/065/453/original/0acb5995e4349c5c.jpg


Guilty pleasure: walk in the rain. Better yet: right after the rain.


"You shall know a word by the company it keeps" —J.R. Firth.


How TIDAL uses machine learning for recommendations and open sourcing our algorithms https://developer.tidal.com/blog/utilizing-machine-learning-to-curate-tidals-daily-discovery


Caring


#memes #funny https://image.nostr.build/39339f1ca5957f882a95731214e0d0949b63470774a721a18b8323c48addc220.jpg


Triunfo del “En contra”: El abismo insalvable entre la clase política y el electorado
https://www.ciperchile.cl/2023/12/18/triunfo-del-en-contra-el-abismo/


“Rather than strengthening our unsustainable agricultural model, the focus should be on restoring what industrial agriculture has destroyed: farmers’ livelihoods, biodiversity and soil health. Only then will farmers be able to cultivate local climates that naturally store carbon and provide optimal conditions for food production without placing so much pressure on the environment.”
https://theconversation.com/genetically-modified-crops-arent-a-solution-to-climate-change-despite-what-the-biotech-industry-says-219637


Life is full of surprises! The year is not over. Meanwhile I send you a big hug 🫂


Damus web version: https://v.nostr.build/ya0A.mp4

..
jk. 🤣


BP pauses all Red Sea shipments after rebel attacks

The oil giant joins shipping firms in suspending travel through the key route following missile strikes. #press

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67748605?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA&utm_source=press.coop


EU takes action against Elon Musk's X over disinformation

The EU says it is launching "formal enforcement proceedings" against the social media platform. #press

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67749228?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA&utm_source=press.coop


Good morning Roya 💜🫂


First segments of the world's largest telescope mirror shipped to Chile https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/news/eso2319/?lang


Good morning! Have a fruitful week! 🌻💜🫂


Fun. He made me laugh with seemingly simple difficulties in concrete their love. And that’s why it’s a great movie.


Fine, thanks for asking. Have a great week!


Goodnight everyone! ✨💜🫂


I couldn’t stop imagining you dancing like that 🐈 😬


So true. Happy Monday for you too 💜🫂


Giants of the sea 🐋🐳 https://video.nostr.build/4abda829536c1a943fbc678f2ac260af411349eb22142b875f9df6a19f5d50b3.mp4


Hood. Always.


Thank you! I did it 😊🫂💜


I’m going to watch this film.  See you later ✌
https://youtu.be/usReZGPdlsA?si=KqEnpOsiG7UB6_tx


Done


It’s like a sweet lemon


Lime


“Happiness is continuing to desire what you already have”


¿Se nota que estoy relajada?
Mi agenda está casi vacía :))


“Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà”
https://youtu.be/2BtQjrT1Qks?si=z2_sfzJfadTHKMkI


I can hear the stories of my people, carried on last breath of the day. https://image.nostr.build/dd87d8af143935e47317e58e787eb724bf714f8c4f146f152d1c48329b26663f.jpg


Esperaba un resultado más ajustado y me equivoqué. Me alegro. En este caso, es un alivio. https://image.nostr.build/053f8489b6ad948ae526ad578cbe54cdfed6251bbb9718e575cb83f2025903ec.jpg


I think worked this time


En menos de dos horas nostr:note18eeznec3zfe9k7ry4rhl079jvgruszxfadj09dnkya93cf0g6vdqpul8w9


Servel de lujo. Casi al 77% contabilizado, va adelante el desapruebo.


I have problems to zap with Alby. I just can pay facturas.


Coney Island
https://open.spotify.com/track/3k7ne7VmH43ZPWxPdvPUgR?si=VCdL1Q0URRenge-kh_EROA


Willow
https://open.spotify.com/track/0lx2cLdOt3piJbcaXIV74f?si=ZSIxqlY8TeGfQfhSEIJjkw https://image.nostr.build/d73ecc50a037692a260d4a674c0507b42276b88a3eacf90979bebd36c09f4944.jpg


Rigth?


“El nivel de desigualdad en Chile es muchísimo mayor del que podría serle beneficioso”
https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-domingo/noticia/florencia-torche-el-nivel-de-desigualdad-en-chile-es-muchisimo-mayor-del-que-podria-serle-beneficioso


We visited the Lightscape installation at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden this weekend.

It was an outstanding exhibit (and the hot buttered rum was a nice touch).

Here are a few favorite shots. If you’re in the area before the new year, I highly recommend it.

#artstr
#travelstr
#photography
#nyc
#holidays
#grownostr https://image.nostr.build/1d5e717b8073616a19df4a5887076750b77c1c1e5fc0ff4600506ecf3ed15ef7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8c18f08569d8ebf79a58ebb3e9f5b5be17d9047d999132f1ac34fb5ec7aaa02b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/20aa04cee52b00de3317307d4afe23e5b73521516e8358f22a0ce06c7b057426.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c327ab8ba733daf6fa3c34128d6bbcc480cd4e6bed567439fa48bcc47bd3455a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f5b08176ac9744528c54ff007aaa23f710b8a44f4c232d68c559f6cb8e84c6fd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/66556a06b5197823a6c25d56f4c17b6cb044a34ad26c5faf9fd30fc679abb469.jpg https://image.nostr.build/692349b4a91ca87b548bdeb87bf5dfb5859690876c4c3c1765f1623e574abea7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3a395307ceada84eddb004f8a4ecfccaf2f4e7060c466c732d7c143df2c546b5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d080ff35d68bcd9d6d99caefae40d29f40edfaa82fc02f76f4cab82246643e0f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b3680dcfe3a2471fbf784ed43a393a09fdb854552e07aac97f3c24a59c050da9.jpg


Lluvia
https://open.spotify.com/track/3EAMKYvrlIxz0xFbrBiNZY?si=xFEZNUM-TUy3d-psjkmTLg


Help make Nostr more accessible and easier to use. We’re looking for nostr and non-nostr users to join our research pool to be interviewed. The research is being run ny Nos but relates to Nostr and decentralized social media in general.

We’ll share the results with anyone else working on Nostr as well of course.

https://forms.gle/11BReHn5NGq32UiR6


V4V.  On tour.  First time ever.

This week on nostr:npub1h8gzew8am6cezuq7cpjgudldra40hgnruqrqlsrqnxnzs5wjtczqztps02 and IRL from First Ave.

Get your popcorn and your zapping wallets ready.

9 PM EST on Thursday 12/21.

https://welcome.tunestr.io/

nostr:npub1a377f258tzafuzdgezwjw4aplg8ze3suyzm40t6j4czcjvwp5vls5d5r4w  nostr:npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy https://video.nostr.build/3edec008ff4adbd80f632e1b55c94565f19610ab8d2c62ec813de12263171461.mp4


Je désapprouve


1964: ARTHUR C CLARKE predicts the FUTURE — Horizon, Past Predictions, BBC Archive
https://youtu.be/YwELr8ir9qM?si=jFCwgnI22Y3P5F-C


Great pics!


Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!!


Aww… lovely!


😂
https://x.com/PazTondro/status/1736410563645698375?s=20


Two hours left…


nostr:npub1rlfaaaal29097arpaqflh7x98r8yyc075utazmar3g7kyzfr6wzszhyg5u /create a melody with supersaw, use three note chords and as reference make it similar as “miss the rage” from trippie redd.


nostr:npub1rlfaaaal29097arpaqflh7x98r8yyc075utazmar3g7kyzfr6wzszhyg5u generate a melody with supersaw, use three note chords and as reference make it similar as “miss the rage” from trippie redd.


Wind of Change (MTV Unplugged in Athens) ❤
https://open.spotify.com/track/4iKTbuGckmJaWQAyKDR7Q7?si=k5KAqSC4QZG2L7Q522l2fw


She is rigth
https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1736318738658402468?s=20


“Al mal tiempo buena cara”


Chile votes today on a new Constitution. The end of a process that started in 2019 with the social uprising. You’re going to have me for a while here and on X. Hopping for the less bad but prepared for the worst.


Abracadabras
https://open.spotify.com/track/2mJYTwrs3lMTJ0Z2TXnbZZ?si=w7ghB0AbTU2bw6UtxKr__w


Ilusão
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zVlZoP2PTXu9LddkZR3Lt?si=ljuCp2Q8TJSaHR3E8QSVAA


Creo que no les he presentado a mi favorita de favoritas en español: Julieta Venegas ❤

Caminé ese camino
https://open.spotify.com/track/0QmqrpDCYY8CbZsBDIcPp9?si=drTXDgQGRlK4kG8Bn1R5iA


Ayer almorcé en casa de una amiga y me tocó sentarme con un ex-banquero y un fujimorista. Fue una experiencia grata para nadie 🤷♀


Listening


Just perfect


It happens to me every time. If I don't say no they instantly know they almost have me 😂


“En muchas cosas he sido consistente a lo largo de las décadas, y en otras he ido variando mi manera de pensar. Y quizá ese es el mérito de las columnas que duran tantos años: transparentar el debate que un columnista tiene consigo mismo a lo largo del tiempo cuando se esfuerza por acercar sus ideas a la realidad, que es siempre cambiante en función del contexto”.

“On many things I have been consistent over the decades, and in others I have varied my way of thinking. And maybe that is the merit of the columns that last so many years: to make transparent the debate that a columnist has with himself over time when he strives to bring his ideas closer to reality, which is always changing depending on the context”.


The last opinion column by Mario Vargas Llosa. He is retiring. https://image.nostr.build/2086eb98bdbabbeffabde066f418edc2a10bcae9d6d3619a7d1c508c104c5150.jpg


Wonderful, Roya! Love music! I’ll be here to hear you 😃


I'm hearing a creepy story


Spanish is my mother tongue


I mean in English.


I just realise that I speak slow :)


Very rough early work on https://Unleashed.chat , but I think we can "fix" nostr search.

👇👇👇👇👇👇

> what are some common discussion topics on nostr

Nostr, being a decentralized social media platform similar to Twitter, covers a wide range of topics. Some common discussion topics on Nostr include:

1.  Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology
2.  Politics and world events
3.  Technology and innovation
4.  Personal experiences and stories
5.  Art, music, and entertainment
6.  Philosophy and self-improvement
7.  Health and wellness
8.  Science and space exploration
9.  Environmental issues and sustainability
10.  Spirituality and religion

These are just a few examples of popular discussion topics on Nostr. Users often engage in discussions related to their interests and passions, making the platform diverse and dynamic.

> could you give me some examples of notes related to each of those?

Sure, here are some example Nostr notes related to the common discussion topics listed above:

1.  Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology:
    -   Bitcoin price surges past $60k for the first time ever!
    -   Ethereum 2.0 upgrade brings major improvements to scalability and security.
    -   New DeFi project launches, offering innovative solutions for decentralized finance.
2.  Politics and World Events:
    -   President announces new policies aimed at addressing climate change.
    -   Tensions rise between two countries; diplomatic efforts underway.
    -   Election results reveal surprising outcomes in several key races.
3.  Technology and Innovation:
    -   Elon Musk unveils Tesla's latest electric vehicle model, featuring advanced autonomous driving capabilities.
    -   Researchers develop breakthrough materials that could revolutionize renewable energy production.
    -   SpaceX successfully lands Starship prototype after high-altitude test flight.
4.  Personal Experiences and Stories:
    -   Sharing a heartfelt story about overcoming personal challenges and finding inner strength.
    -   Celebrating a recent milestone, such as graduating college or achieving a long-term goal.
    -   Reflecting on life lessons learned during a recent trip abroad.
5.  Art, Music, and Entertainment:
    -   Reviewing the latest movie release and discussing its themes and impact.
    -   Announcing the lineup for an upcoming music festival and sharing excitement for the event.
    -   Showcasing original artwork created by a talented artist in the community.
6.  Philosophy and Self-Improvement:
    -   Exploring the concept of mindfulness and how it can improve mental health and overall wellbeing.
    -   Offering advice on effective time management techniques for busy professionals.
    -   Discussing the importance of empathy and compassion in our daily interactions with others.
7.  Health and Wellness:
    -   Highlighting the benefits of regular exercise and providing tips for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
    -   Raising awareness about mental health issues and encouraging open dialogue around the subject.
    -   Providing guidance on natural remedies for common ailments and promoting holistic approaches to healthcare.
8.  Science and Space Exploration:
    -   Scientists discover a new species of plant that could hold the key to combatting climate change.
    -   NASA shares stunning images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope during its mission to study distant galaxies.
    -   A team of researchers makes a groundbreaking discovery about the origins of life on Earth.
9.  Environmental Issues and Sustainability:
    -   Calling attention to the growing problem of plastic pollution in our oceans and suggesting ways to reduce waste.
    -   Advocating for sustainable farming practices and supporting local farmers committed to eco-friendly methods.
    -   Promoting awareness about deforestation and urging individuals to make conscious choices when purchasing products.
10.  Spirituality and Religion:
    -   Sharing insights from a recent meditation retreat and discussing the role of spiritual practice in everyday life.
    -   Debating the merits of different religious beliefs and exploring the connections between faith and morality.
    -   Reflecting on the meaning of life and seeking wisdom from ancient philosophical traditions.

> could you redo that list with added note id?

Sure, here's the updated list with added note IDs:

1.  Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology:
    -   Note ID: npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx
        -   Bitcoin price surges past $60k for the first time ever!
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_the_Ethereum_2.0_upgrade_brings_major_improvements_to_scalability_and_security._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_New_DeFi_project_launches,_offering_innovative_solutions_for_decentralized_finance._
2.  Politics and World Events:
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_President_announces_new_policies_aimed_at_addressing_climate_change._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Tensions_rise_between_two_countries_;_diplomatic_efforts_underway._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Election_results_reveal_surprising_outcomes_in_several_key_races._
3.  Technology and Innovation:
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Elon_Musk_unveils_Tesla_s_latest_electric_vehicle_model,_featuring_advanced_autonomous_driving_capabilities._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Researchers_develop_breakthrough_materials_that_could_revolutionize_renewable_energy_production._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_SpaceX_successfully_lands_Starship_prototype_after_high-altitude_test_flight._
4.  Personal Experiences and Stories:
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Sharing_a_heartfelt_story_about_overcoming_personal_challenges_and_finding_inner_strength._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Celebrating_a_recent_milestone,_such_as_graduating_college_or_achieving_a_long-term_goal._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Reflecting_on_life_lessons_learned_during_a_recent_trip_abroad._
5.  Art, Music, and Entertainment:
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Reviewing_the_latest_movie_release_and_discussing_its_themes_and_impact._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Announcing_the_lineup_for_an_upcoming_music_festival_and_sharing_excitement_for_the_event._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Showcasing_original_artwork_created_by_a_talented_artist_in_the_community._
6.  Philosophy and Self-Improvement:
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Exploring_the_concept_of_mindfulness_and_how_it_can_improve_mental_health_and_wellbeing._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Offering_advice_on_effective_time_management_techniques_for_busy_professionals._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Discussing_the_importance_of_empathy_and_compassion_in_our_daily_interactions_with_others._
7.  Health and Wellness:
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Highlighting_the_benefits_of_regular_exercise_and_providing_tips_for_maintaining_a_healthy_lifestyle._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Raising_awareness_about_mental_health_issues_and_encouraging_open_dialogue_around_the_subject._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Providing_guidance_on_natural_remedies_for_common_ailments_and_promoting_holistic_approaches_to_healthcare._
8.  Science and Space Exploration:
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Scientists_discover_a_new_species_of_plant_that_could_hold_the_key_to_combatting_climate_change._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_NASA_shares_stunning_images_captured_by_the_James_Web_Space_Telescope_during_its_mission_to_study_distant_galaxies._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_A_team_of_researchers_makes_a_groundbreaking_discovery_about_the_origins_of_life_on_Earth._
9.  Environmental Issues and Sustainability:
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Calling_attention_to_the_growing_problem_of_plastic_pollution_in_our_oceans_and_suggesting_ways_to_reduce_waste._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Advocating_for_sustainable_farming_practices_and_supporting_local_farmers_committed_to_eco-friendly_methods._
    -   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Promoting_awareness_about_deforestation_and_urging_individuals_to_make_conscious_choices_when_purchasing_products._
10.  Spirituality and Religion:

-   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Sharing_insights_from_a_recent_meditation_retreat_and_discussing_the_role_of_spiritual_practice_in_everyday_life._
-   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Debating_the_merits_of_different_religious_beliefs_and_exploring_the_connections_between_faith_and_morality._
-   Note ID: npub1h2jjjgma9ad3nsawqcry64lu76au9aktapxpaz040wc5v32034qq2z2ggwIf_Reflecting_on_the_meaning_of_life_and_seeking_wisdom_from_ancient_philosophical_traditions._

Type a message


GM Daniel ☀


Stella says hello! https://image.nostr.build/b4f2859f5b99fd20829269542d6b1da18cde17ee6e06d5cf0948ea2b8c603b61.jpg


Good morning Eshara! 💜🫂


Risk management is not project management

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38656007 )

https://mattrucker.com/risk-management-is-not-project-management/


El Movimiento es Vida ☄🌍☀ https://video.nostr.build/55017f49f8e065e11b1f6155e2fcb4ec8c0a61b830a389e5d1c04a2499cbedde.mp4


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂
Have a lovely Sunday!


Goodnigth ✨💜


Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 | Daniel Barenboim & the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Complete Symphony)

https://youtu.be/HljSXSm6v9M?si=PW3wZXViViqCdMvu


"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul" —Wassily Kandinsky


Hope you feel better soon! Take care! 💜🫂


Beautiful sounds of grey whales 🔊🐋 https://video.nostr.build/b600352cd8f0fc9194772bd08ab687a126289b6139670099b79a41754bd95c34.mp4


Can we build a Nostr-native onion routing for private events using DVMs?

Each onion hop is a GiftWrap using an Ephemeral event kind encrypted to the next onion DVM. The client assembles all hops and sends the private message to the first DVM via the user's main relay. That DVM decrypts the ephemeral event and sends it to the next DVM. The last DVM will send it to the user.

This minimizes the user's IP leakage to the set of trusted relays that user likes while sustaining the relay decentralization properties of NIP-65.

User's would never connect directly to the read relays of other users because they might not be trusted.

Since the relay knows your Nostr filters, it does know which pubkeys you are interested in (including your own key). Decoupling sending an event to a pubkey and filtering events for your pubkey in the same connection/IP is key to reducing the power that the relay has over you.

This would be akin to using several Tor sessions, a new session for every new message you send, while giving the Client the power to choose different "exit" nodes (DVMs) at each new message.

Am I crazy or is this actually better?


How to Lose a Library

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657830 )

https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-a-library/


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


Uno de mis hijos estaría absolutamente fascinado con esto. Se han divertido tanto haciendo alucinar a ChatGPT o ‘persuadiéndolo’ de instrucciones cuando les dice que no que mejor ni les digo (mientras escribía me di cuenta que tal vez ya lo hicieron 🤦♀). Por suerte, me los llevo de vacaciones sin PC.


"Here in the middle of war, innocent people are cut off from the rest of the world, and we have the opportunity to help them through mutual aid and direct action."

In an upcoming TPB episode,  nostr:npub12lzwey2hjc2ce0stwa3ldhg04h93wj263lvdhrf87qfzz9jsggeqwuntw2 and I discuss
Yusef's  nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9  campaign, raising money through #Bitcoin for families in #Gaza. This is going directly to families in need for basic food and provisions, and showing one of #Bitcoin's most important use cases, if not the most important use-case--censorship resistant, global money, for those who need it most in times of crisis.

Please consider donating to this campaign today: https://geyser.fund/project/wecollectdonationsforsacrificesofeidaladhapalestine

https://v.nostr.build/zalY.mp4


Goodnight ✨💜🫂


One neat feature of the new groups support is that you can post to multiple groups at once, either publicly or privately depending on your access to the group and the group's settings.

nostr:nevent1qqsqs5fe4menkzaxqjyryvsc7de8ltsvh3m62xu542p6908mk78uyvqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9rhwden5te0wfjkcctev93xcefwdaexwtcpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshsz8rhwden5te0vf6kx6m9wshxxmmjv93kcefwwdhkx6tpdshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgswaehxw309asjumn0wvhxcmmv9uq3jamnwvaz7tmgdajxccn0vshxummnw3erztnrdakj7x36wm9
https://v.nostr.build/eD2z.mp4


Gracias por compartirlo. Me da gusto saber que habla español 😄


But why? 🥺


Help make Nostr better. We're putting together a pool of nostr and non-nostr users to talk to as part of a series of customer development and user research.  Please share this around or sign up.

nos.social will be conducting numerous rounds of discovery and user research in the coming months and we're seeking people who would be open to sharing information about ANY of the following topics:

- Your current social media use including what you like and dislike

- Your experience using or trying out federated platforms like Mastodon, Nostr, Bluesky etc.

- Your experience using nos.social

- Your experience as a content creator

- Your experience working in the advocacy / activist space as it relates to social media.

All sessions will be remote and hosted over Zoom or equivalent video conferencing tools. We will need you to join on a computer as there will often be times where we need you to share your screen.

If interested, please tell us a bit about your social media use and experience below.

As opportunities arise, we'll reach out to coordinate scheduling.

https://forms.gle/11BReHn5NGq32UiR6


Break Glass 🪨 https://bitkey.build/content/files/2023/11/Bitkey-Recovery-Features.pdf


Good morning Marie! 🥂


Tired 🌻


jessel is an engineer building AP integration at Threads: nostr:npub1lt4ppl7vswzum7ww5zjc92lad5ph3qlqaf64pkpvnwhdkuulypsqyxy39w

The plot thickens.

nostr:note10aqatxpgcl8lcccpczltxz57xl3v5e240vela2zrqs6qvjjmjqwqqwrlvu


Congratulations! 🥳


Maersk pauses shipping through Red Sea after attacks

Shipping company Maersk pauses journeys through Red Sea strait after multiple attacks on vessels in the region #press

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67731853?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA&utm_source=press.coop


Step 1: Make fake video
Step 2: Watch your stocks soar
Step 3: Admit fake video
Step 4: Go about your business as usual. Not like there will be any repercussions...

https://www.engadget.com/google-admits-that-a-gemini-ai-demo-video-was-staged-055718855.html


Good morning! 💜


Good morning! Happy Friday!🌻💜🫂


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂
Taking time to talk with the other side of the world :)


¿Practicando para el cambio de horario? Nop… falta una semana :))


GN Daniel


Debo salir a una reunión de trabajo y me dio lata maquillarme. Mi hijo: “Mamá, no sé cómo haces para verte tan bien sin como con pintura”
Amor de niño ❤


Wow… at least three of the seasons in a week


Perhaps you will like this poem —one of my favourites— from Wislawa Szymborska:

They’re both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
but uncertainty is more beautiful still.

Since they’d never met before, they’re sure
that there’d been nothing between them.
But what’s the word from the streets, staircases, hallways—
perhaps they’ve passed by each other a million times?

I want to ask them
if they don’t remember—
a moment face to face
in some revolving door?
perhaps a “sorry” muttered in a crowd?
a curt “wrong number” caught in the receiver?—
but I know the answer.
No, they don’t remember.

They’d be amazed to hear
that Chance has been toying with them
now for years.

Not quite ready yet
to become their Destiny,
it pushed them close, drove them apart,
it barred their path,
stifling a laugh,
and then leaped aside.

There were signs and signals,
even if they couldn’t read them yet.
Perhaps three years ago
or just last Tuesday
a certain leaf fluttered
from one shoulder to another?
Something was dropped and then picked up.
Who knows, maybe the ball that vanished
into childhood’s thicket?

There were doorknobs and doorbells
where one touch had covered another
beforehand.
Suitcases checked and standing side by side.
One night, perhaps, the same dream,
grown hazy by morning.

Every beginning
is only a sequel, after all,
and the book of events
is always open halfway through.

https://poets.org/poem/love-first-sight


Cryptography is only needed in Nostr because relays are many and not just one. The relay infrastructure precedes the need for keys.

Maybe this is obvious, but just in case.


🥺💜 Hope she/he gets better soon


“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury” —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations


Hmmm… that would be too easy


1234 - Feist (also Canadian)
https://open.spotify.com/track/49CP2usyaN98EdtrOWXnal?si=5ZbTCIyHRi2fXNbriMZxYw


GM Joy!


Yo solo dejo esto por aquí…
https://youtu.be/AJWtLf4-WWs?si=i8kIICYOeTE-GovO


Love Lilies! https://image.nostr.build/503111d7075c4dc32c5f2ee3581c6dbe47e08a0db72c317af0e6eb9e893f1ef4.jpg


Interesting…


GM Nathan! Thanks! Great day for you too!


GN Ava 💜


Thanks for sharing. For my to do list from next Saturday 😉


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


Was a long day…

Goodnight ✨💜🫂


Good morning Marie 💜


Thanks for sharing


I agree with you. It is also important to realize that this will not happen automatically due to years of algorithmically induced behavior. But yes, people are born with a good disposition and the desire to help others.


Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon


What are you doing Marie?


Nobody important for sure


It is hard to get an accurate sense of how big Nostr is by nature of the network. Looking at just what’s written doesn’t tell us the whole story. We can see ‘writes’ in the various nostr statistics sites like https://stats.nostr.band/

That shows us having about 10k daily active users. But in this case a daily active user is somebody who has a positive trust rank and  publishes something.

Nostr.band estimates there are 350k users on Nostr. While Primal.net/explore puts the number at 660k. In both cases they’re looking at users who’ve got a trust rank and verified user. Users who are just lurking will never show up in those numbers.

Show how many people are really on nostr? The question is worth asking, because many people are looking at emerging social media platforms trying to pick which one to use. Size and engagement are concrete numbers which help people decide. Should they use these numbers this way, no, but it’s a thing.

There’s the 1% rule of thumb for social media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule It says that 1% of the users will be the creators, 9% are creators or curators, they reply but don’t generate original content, and 90% of people are passive consumers. In the real world, those numbers aren’t right, as every platform has different levels of engagement. What is useful to remember is the general ratios.

With Bluesky we know more about the ecosystem than we do with nostr, due to the architecture of their system.  You can see the stats for yourself here: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats It shows us there are currently 2.5 million registered accounts, of which only half have posted a single skeet (note). We don’t know how many are spam or fake accounts. When bluesky had 500k users, I was told by a team member that their DAU’s were between 1k and 2k. They’re clearly getting a lot more use per user today as they’ve got about 130k unique users posting per day, 90k new followers, and 200k people liking a post. So my guess is their actual DAU is somewhere between 250k and 500k. This is a huge shift, where they’re getting much more engagement per user today than they were 6 months ago.

My guess is that we’ve got between 25k and 75k actual DAU’s on Nostr. I’ve got to get some breakfast and focus on building nos, but those numbers should get people started.


true. if the company didn't go down this path, the advertisers would leave. if they left, the business crashes and the hedge funds come in. the only path forward was a protocol that we didn't own or control, or going private. going private however does not address the long term problem, as there is still a single owner, no matter how great their intention (and I know Elon's intentions are great). https://x.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690?s=20


I want a drone for Christmas :)


No, it’s not to go to London


"Whoever cannot be mobilized when freedom is threatened will not be mobilized at all."  — Hannah Arendt


Economics*


Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas as Written by Walt Whitman

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/mariah-careys-all-i-want-for-christmas-as-written-by-walt-whitman


Political Language in Economic
https://t.co/Cnnslnxkud


👀 A beautiful sunrise in the Torres del Paine National Park, Chile 🤙
https://video.nostr.build/f1c05a4c0101fdb8f0c7788f15196e5e3267683b2e513f667e6311fc6c03c17d.mp4
#GrowNostr #Uncharted


That’s why I’m here


When nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was CEO of Twitter and Trump was president there were many calls to ban Trump from Twitter. There were many people demanding Trump be removed because either he violated the TOS or because they saw Trump’s tweets as dangerous.

While catching up over kombucha at the Square office, Jack mentioned some of these conversations and how there were compelling arguments on both sides. He asked lots of people what they thought twitter should do. So he asked me about Trump and other accounts, like Richard Spencer’s and the alt-right.

I’m very anti-Trump but I said I thought Jack shouldn’t ban him, because he’d face a shareholder revolt. Everyone said that it was Jack deciding things at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg for the meta empire, but that wasn’t really true. The real power is in the money and that’s shareholders and advertisers.

I can only imagine what a hard and stressful job it would be to decide what can and cannot be said in the public sphere, as twitter effectively was at its height. It was an impossible job, one which shouldn’t exist. Jack did incredibly good at managing to find balance, and everyone hated his decisions because there was no right answer.

The reason for Bluesky, and now Nostr is to make it so no company or person has that kind of control. That the public sphere that is social media shouldn’t owned or controlled by any corporation or government. When something of value is held together without being ultimately owned by a person, organization, or government, the it is held in common.

What we’re building together on Nostr is a commons. By making it a commons that’s held up by our software and contrbution as users, we escape the trap that caught twitter.

A commons where we come together to make and sustain space.

A commons where we can do business freely without someone who can arbitrarily shut us down.

A commons where groups of users can decide the rules for themselves, and everyone doesn’t need to follow some universal set of opaque rules.


Politics indeed. Needs to compensate for the economic changes.


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


Helping to correct what I was a part of and learned. It’s not about Twitter. It’s about the corporate incentives.

A company can’t own the protocol, platform, and interface all in one. The protocol layer must be free.


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂


Just showed it to my son. Thanks.


Getting ready for the New Year's party?


After using #Nostr for several weeks, one thing that has taken me by surprise is how there are very liberal and very conservative people on here, and yet they both share a sense of community and don't spend all day posting content against each other. Despite differences in political persuasion, they find common ground on here.

Now that I've seen this, I better understand how dangerous centralized control of social media is -- where algorithms continuously drive inflammatory content to users to keep them addicted to the platform. I find it ironic that a censorship-resistant platform is largely devoid of much of the inflammatory content that's present on censorable social media. One may have thought the opposite would be the case.


So true


In Dreams
https://open.spotify.com/track/6yPuQr6vjZ7tJ4oq1PEXle?si=5lseNdnGQPysWf-xR4-p4w


Me acaban de invitar a la presentación de un nuevo movimiento político. Es época navideña, hay algo más tiempo, alcanzo a hacerlo antes de viajar y soy curiosa 😉


NIP-4 Security Warning - why i use simplex and not #nostr dms

This standard does not go anywhere near what is considered the state-of-the-art in encrypted communication between peers, and it leaks metadata in the events, therefore it must not be used for anything you really need to keep secret, and only with relays that use AUTH to restrict who can fetch your 'kind:4' events.

nostr:nevent1qqsp0raxywwh5vvgxf5ec8tjgz4a96ruxrdtkjwxvnae7k8nznwc3jspr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyzm7669svt0xkjsju50a22zurc0qa589z2xd4yatzx6p2z64a5e0cqcyqqqqqqg2cycxe


Me recordaron a Dana. Aunque yo la dejaba con el pelaje de un solo largo.


"Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Interview with NPR, 2002


😁😅🤘
https://image.nostr.build/5a425bce326965c2a65c32983dd76a7d1706c4793372112a22a0ed0e0da29c19.jpg
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebs


Only covers part of the argument. It’s the product. Why it exists? Why it is an objective of regulation?


Impactful. Good to know you’re ok.


nostrleaks needs to happen


☺ https://image.nostr.build/ead747cb51482323c4fad7724fd79e217e50ef3bfb3b2ae0f7a62a36456d3a7e.jpg


good night 😴
https://v.nostr.build/RA0B.mp4


https://slidestr.net is a visual nostr client for exploring images via a slideshow.

the default view seems to be catstr, dogstr, flowerstr, foodstr, grownostr, etc. but you can configure your own feed of content.

https://m.primal.net/HTfL.png


I've updated my list of Lightning wallets that support receiving Zaps:

NIP-57 Zaps compatible wallets:

strike.army
vida.page
stacker.news
Bitcoin Jungle
ln.tips (LightningTipBot)
Geyser
Bitcoin Beach
Current (Client+Wallet)
Wallet of Satoshi
Zebedee
Alby
AnonSats
strike.me
Zeus
Primal (Client+iOS wallet)

Self Custody:
BTCPay Server
nostdress
LNBits

If you have any additions, please let me know.


Good morning!


Beautiful! Wonderful!


Stilton, Dahl, Kinney. They loved Kinney because they are boys.


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


Lovely


Yes https://image.nostr.build/a6f11903fa2940ce62ecb431a5bf5740a2ac0026094266f78c5460791af354e0.jpg


I’m so tired 🥱

Goodnight ✨💜🫂


“For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end… “


nostr:note1p33qa2yd204x6nfd90kphdf9wfd05jyctrh2p32pjt39kpwnp60sswkdd5

Wow.

App stores will likely be opening up soon.


Awww so cute


they are distracting you from this https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/section-702-needs-reform-and-oversight-not-expansion-congress-should-oppose-hpsci


🚨 https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-they-must-defeat-hpsci-s-horrific-surveillance-bill


https://image.nostr.build/d38771089cc353e56d607214499a3ede19d1c9a694358edc2f93a1057f2f96fe.jpg
#inspiration


Happy Birthday Derek! Keep enjoying a wonderful day! 🥳🎉


Contando los días para viajar. Necesito una gran dosis de música en vivo y poder salir a trotar/caminar a la hora que sea.


People will forget what you said, will forget what you did but will never forget how you made them feel… Maya Angelou


Happy Birthday Derek! Hope you’re enjoying a wonderful day! 🥳


Namaste 🙏


Everything is theater. Don’t be distracted. Don’t trust, verify.


From Curious George ;)

Have a great week everyone!

https://open.spotify.com/track/0aJrYfARfCKzv6gXjhs4SZ?si=ajH6Lb10Suaw48sxPg-N0Q


It's like when you think you know a writer just because you read his/her books. Maybe how his/her mind works but that’s all. There are many layers in a human being.


Bitcoin doesn't have wallets.

It has clients and signers.

Get on with the program https://bitcoinstack.info


Mistral team is doing a great job, they recently launched a new model weight on torrent. It's lightweight and very performant.

Torrent link:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5546272da9065eddeb6fcd7ffddeef5b75be79a7&dn=mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce

RELEASE a6bbd9affe0c2725c1b7410d66833e24
https://mistral.ai/product/


Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round

French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The company has raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate — according to Bloomberg, it values the company at roughly $2 billion. Mistral AI is also opening up its... #press

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/mistral-ai-a-paris-based-openai-rival-closed-its-415-million-funding-round/?utm_source=press.coop


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


“Curiously, the AI Alliance vaguely echoes the AIM Alliance (only one letter off) formed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola in 1991 as a way to oppose the domination of the "Wintel" duopoly of Microsoft and Intel in the PC market. But unlike the AIM Alliance (which included only three companies), the organizations in the AI alliance span the tech industry, research groups, government, and academia.”  :)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/ibm-meta-form-ai-alliance-with-50-organizations-to-promote-open-source-ai/


Indeed


Goodnight ✨💜🫂


I say “thank you” too 🤷♀


Love the view


Thank you


I was there a couple of days ago. I had problems with the audio because these ISP is bad. I will return when travelling.


Where?


Good question


Now in Peru


That’s a burrito


First we need to consolidate and be strong in what we have. I think we're not there yet. It could play against us and produce cannibalization.


Why?


Better together
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iXdwVdzA0KrI2Q0iZNJbX?si=9PJ_Ka2CQeGGbDKTGRlcMA


Yep nostr:note153ganzcszazfwp0k9mx5fdzx2fxuukexkvenc3th6e7ku0eyvhvsw76xzn


I still follow her mother on X. A terrible injustice.


All the Stars
https://open.spotify.com/track/3GCdLUSnKSMJhs4Tj6CV3s?si=Q0EBQsIkSZegRYFE9pv43g


Ever heard of a Thermin? Pretty cool stuff.

https://youtu.be/-QgTF8p-284?si=MA7mjzXECdeXQiB0


Fascinating


The OP_RETURN discussion is not new and dates back to 2014 when Bitcoin Core 0.9.0 was released with the OP_RETURN policy included which was intended to discourage more egregious forms of spam. At that time, 40 bytes was the default max datacarriersize limit across all node implementations; this was and still is sufficiently large for tying data to a transaction (32 bytes for a hash and 8 bytes for a unique identifier). Core subsequently increasing the default to 80 bytes was an entirely voluntary decision and in no way contradicts the design objective that OP_RETURN creates a provably-prunable output to minimise damage caused by data storage schemes, which have always been discouraged as abusive. There are also other good technical reasons which I have chosen to retain the lower default in Bitcoin Knots, and no justification for increasing it.

It is not my intention, nor that of my team at
nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze, to filter coinjoins. These present an innovative tool for increasing Bitcoin’s privacy and, when constructed properly, coinjoins can easily stay within the OP_RETURN limit (indeed, there is no reason for them to have *any* OP_RETURN data at all). I have some ideas on how to alleviate the recent issue where some coinjoin transactions were flagged as spam from Knots v25, and I am willing, with the full resources of my team, to work collaboratively on a solution in good faith.

Bitcoin does and always has allowed nodes to set filters based on multiple sets of criteria and Knots v25’s defaults are IMO what is best for Bitcoin at this time. Others may disagree and that is ok. They are free to (and should) run their own nodes - it is good for Bitcoin to have more people running nodes, including miners, and there should be a natural diversity in node policies. As was stated before, OCEAN is on a path to decentralization and very soon we are going to be in a position where hashers will be able to fully participate as miners and perform the intelligent parts of mining such as deciding which version of node software to run and what filters or other policies to apply to block template construction.


Summer is here https://image.nostr.build/a4abb579ed6ec843c271127c305e091ebecd3bb5e27081b4d1e98213e11a9e7b.jpg


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


I agree with your point in general. Nevertheless for this case as a user I feel the cleanness visually better and friendlier.


Goodnight ✨🎉🫂


GN ✨


Sorry to read what happened. Welcome to Nostr.


Goodnight ✨


I’m not a designer but looks cleaner the second one


nostr:npub1rlfaaaal29097arpaqflh7x98r8yyc075utazmar3g7kyzfr6wzszhyg5u /create a melody with supersaw, use three note chords and as reference make it similar as “miss the rage” from trippie redd.


nostr:npub1rlfaaaal29097arpaqflh7x98r8yyc075utazmar3g7kyzfr6wzszhyg5u generate a melody with supersaw, use three note chords and as reference make it similar as “miss the rage” from trippie redd.


Good morning!
(Why? Why? 😂)


😁🧡✨🤙
https://image.nostr.build/d8d2c97e15463a47d38b14e6f7b730aa4dca43b68d95a0117b3a641524042b09.jpg
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebs


¡Todo lo mejor para ustedes en la nueva casa!


Like my Stella as a puppie ❤


👀 Machu Picchu: One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World and a World Heritage Site, Peru 🤙
https://video.nostr.build/055c6f1fc9f9bf2f7615baad49a126d6b999215d06e33ffa63747f223f6e2a33.mp4
#GrowNostr #Uncharted


She is eating Pitahaya (Dragonfruit)


Beautiful! Where is it?


GM Daniel


Good morning


Also top 😉


This nostr:note14zttcrsms0fgsuugtxlaf4engjkhnjrpcesfn4a6s4guxkje5zfs3rj2xq


Things I needed to know before rowing without breakfast…


Good morning! 🌞🌻💜🫂


Goodnight ✨💜🫂


Great view!


Carminho & Marisa Monte ❤
https://open.spotify.com/track/2CjGCepEkmxYIKt4onadvo?si=P_egYC4TSrGPI6ZfU27_Yw


Thank you 💜


Internet is terrible here. Maybe next time when I go outside the country.


Yes but I don’t have audio from you


Was I Laser Eyes? I didn’t see me on the chat


Thank you for the invitation. Shall I go just to watch and maybe talk?


Beautiful! I discovered her work last years.


Congratulations!


We donated #bitcoin to more than 500 people and downloaded 200+ wallets!!!

(The remaining balance will be given to MOTIV Peru to keep changing lives) https://video.nostr.build/0a7db2c8ab8601b0e9e2a178a68c422b10d8bb6a7b4f29b8fbefdccb19d61c54.mp4


:D


Yes. Small steps. The key is to identify the cultural engine of each country. They are doing very well in Iquitos.


I know you know the gamification concept. An interesting presentation from Luis Von Ahn.

How to Make Learning as Addictive as Social Media
https://youtu.be/P6FORpg0KVo?si=u2di3Txf5xjUOc4C


Amidst unprecedented performance drop, some education systems buck the trend

Eighteen countries and economies performed above the OECD average in mathematics, reading and science in 2022. Between 2018 and 2022, mean performance in mathematics across OECD countries fell by a record 15 points. Reading fell 10 points, twice the previous record, whereas science performance did not change significantly. On average, reading and science trajectories had been falling for a decade, though math had remained stable between 2003-2018. Colombia, Macao (China), Peru and Qatar improved in all three subjects on average since they began to take part in PISA.

https://www.oecd.org/publication/pisa-2022-results/ https://image.nostr.build/3047b505dedc6ef818fdd3f9f8b0561ea9f32bfbe8c76c1bdd45282bfabc470d.jpg


https://wid.world/news-article/education-and-poverty-reduction/

EDUCATION AT THE CENTRE OF GLOBAL POVERTY REDUCTION
Access to schooling has improved dramatically around the world in recent decades. How useful have these investments been in reducing poverty and gender inequality?

Amory Gethin provides the first estimates of the aggregate and distributional effects of global education expansion since 1980. Leveraging a unique microdatabase representative of 95% of the world’s population, a “distributional growth accounting” framework that identifies the effects of schooling on growth and inequality, and complementary evidence from three large-scale schooling expansion policies, he documents three main findings.

Education accounts for at least 50% of global economic growth, 70% of growth among the world’s poorest 20% individuals, and 50% of the reduction in global gender inequality since 1980.
Schooling has become an increasingly powerful source of global inequality reduction, driven by increasing convergence in education levels within and across countries.
Combining the indirect investment benefits of education with the measures of direct government redistribution from its companion paper brings the contribution of public policies to extreme poverty reduction to at least 50%. This puts public policies at the center of the remarkable reduction of global poverty observed in the past decades. https://image.nostr.build/c67ef40b928a0f998e0c7726279fd3767e1cd7f8d4d97463148b27555d5355c0.jpg


Enjoy! 💜


We officially hosted the first ever LIVE #zapathon in Iquitos, Peru!! THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE 🫶

#bitcoin fixes this. https://video.nostr.build/149ebae6b6047d16046a47762b0435781f296d2a2b35bc5700568c9ad8ff5633.mp4


Of course, the expert from a pristine industry nostr:note1skv0d4kk6ztxaf724cne8exa07yn0030fsuvksd7zjs9m5p0rwpsjdgkhs


Good morning 💜


#opsec #cybersecurity

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/12/report-2-point-6-billion-records-compromised-by-data-breaches-in-past-two-years/


😂 I need to read that book


In the next hour, ANY zaps that this post gets will be given to as many people at this event as we possibly can.

ZAP AWAY!!! #zapathon #zap nostr:npub1h882a66p0zj5n69s2u8nfzev4f97lzfnlcej84z78p6uqxge5tpqlupz20

-> tensefloor71@walletofsatoshi.com https://video.nostr.build/5d592e9d420bedcd037c933d7ba7bedebaaadd237cd7871ddfb5a647bdc849fb.mp4


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂
Happy Friday!


GM! 💜🐾


I’ve finished my work for today and Friday is holiday here. I think I’m going to watch a movie.

Goodnight ✨💜🫂


Iquitos


I know they are spicy because when I was a kid I lost a bet... now I think I know why I don't like betting 🤨


😂 So you ate them like pills! 😂


Jedi focus 🐹 https://video.nostr.build/7edbb05949762fe20a1617f29c3c6fa31d181f60963f9bcc47393d276a9b2358.mp4


Spicy?


Yess… I really enjoy wrapping and choosing gifts. Like in a Hallmark film 😂


For this Christmas, none. I’m going to visit family so my job is just wrapping gifts 😊


“¡Mamá! Llegaste diciendo que debías terminar un trabajo y te encuentro escuchando a Eminem”

Sí, me acaban de regañar 😕


Good morning Marie! Great to know you’re well and back! 💜🫂


Beautiful and so meaningful. Hope you’re well now.


Hola, benvenuti!


I think at least now but sure you have a point to review in the long term


That was my very first concern with cryptocurrency and your comment is what I discovered in Bitcoin holders when I came to Nostr. Fortunate indeed.


https://open.spotify.com/track/60Z57Wdrn0pEVpHI7d7GAX?si=o6DzN5K5ROW99Gm63eY55Q nostr:note1e7h0pnv7f77hqheuu2qmy607jmht0g0ljfakkn8fck6z3x2d6egsfcmucs


Exactly our first audience.

Think of it as a stepping stone.

See what I did there? nostr:note1x7g6hz9yxqxkd3eel085zvf84wh0le7pnangpkxj858sy99gqwpqq7cmaw


nostr:note16gwmyrv2n068x0y2udyultzrrfkm7xnwqdwwve3xqrn7dly9a8mqy5wrh6

this will be completely open.


Congratulations!


we are live 🪨 https://bitkey.world/en-US


Here is my understanding of the ongoing controversies around the nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze saga. I think there is a lot of generalizations and misunderstandings happening. I'll ELI5 the situation as I understand it. Please correct me if any of my facts are wrong. My opinions are my own, dont correct those. I can amend those myself.

Ocean is not specifically targeting coinjoins. It is only samurai implementation that is being affected (and I believe unintentionally).

I believe ocean is intentionally targeting inscriptions, yes. To be clear, I do not agree with what they are doing but I also do not believe they are out of bounds.

Miners are free to set parameters on their node. This is not controversial. Ocean is setting the upper threshold for data size to a lower parameter than what is the current norm in order to bulk filter out inscriptions.

As a side note, it's my opinion that suppressing oceans right to set parameters and filter out the blocks they feel to be spam is an act of centralization in trying to force Ocean to follow the current status quo. Ocean is well within their rights to construct block templates however they see fit. Their ability to mine that template is the checks and balances that decentralization offers.

The unintended result is also filtering out samurai coinjoin transactions. To be clear, other coinjoins are still fine.

And finally, exactly zero blocks have been mined by Ocean since knots was implemented. So their impact has been exactly zero.

If you don't like what they are doing, you're free to point your hashrate elsewhere. Ocean is free to construct their block templates however they wish. That is their right as a miner. It will be to no avail if they dont have hashrate behind them. Just like on nostr you're free to mute spammers, Ocean is free to set their parameters to exclude what they feel to be spam on the blockchain. If you disagree, simply move your hash and everything they are doing is moot. It's that easy.

THE SYSTEM IS WORKING EXACTLY AS INTENDED


Good morning 💜


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


Goodnight ✨💜🫂


Hope you get better soon dear Marie! 💜🫂


Google Gemini vs OpenAI GPT-4. Wow!
https://image.nostr.build/2575bb2e3c9ebbabf7ef9d0defdb747bf70b5dbb6ebf81793ab9be3dd3fe8c4e.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/eb8aa8f1d90c7eba1fe1797da7ad0ec34e795d22ebc0dbd095add53448a3951d.jpg


Peruphasma Schultei, known as the black beauty stick insect, is only known to exist in a region of less than 5 hectares in Peru, typically around volcanoes.

https://video.nostr.build/ab427ae7f8e8ef142365cdd46c1aad3f4f5f1538b1c3296d027ebb958995dd43.mp4
[ 📹 fatos.naturais3] #animals  #amazing  #videos  #insects  #nature  #rare


You can refuse to talk about #bitcoin if you want, but as we were all reminded today, the politicians and bankers are very much talking about it. Your voice is needed to counter their bullshit. They won’t stop talking about it. Will you? nostr:note1p9zfuvtls3d9efhc8vtklpss9d86fpxcl54www0q622pvgthgruqhavrnz


Idem


As the gossip model for relays gains wider adoption in 2024, we can expect significant advancements in the decentralization and resilience of the Nostr protocol. This will shift the focus away from relying on a small number of dominant relays, leading to a more robust and resilient network.

Client developers who have not yet explored the potential of the gossip model are strongly encouraged to consider integrating it into their development plans for early 2024. By embracing this innovative approach, they can contribute to a future where Nostr operates as a truly decentralized and censorship-resistant network.

Beyond increasing decentralization, the implementation of the gossip model significantly contributes to the long-term sustainability of the Nostr protocol too. This is achieved by alleviating the burden on relay operators, who no longer require substantial resources to maintain large-scale infrastructure. As a result, we can expect the emergence of smaller, more cost-effective relays becoming the norm within the Nostr ecosystem.


we’re so back https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-is-up--and-the-zealots-are-back-110015156.html


Quién no?!


The dichotomy between these two tweets is almost like art. So much that I'll share them on Nostr.

The contrast of the text is great, but then also the visuals. Colorful and rural vs gray and stuffy.

https://m.primal.net/HSmW.png
https://m.primal.net/HSmX.png


Guess what everyone, Coracle is getting a redesign! nostr:nprofile1qqs8hhhhhc3dmrje73squpz255ape7t448w86f7ltqemca7m0p99spgpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tchfhljx  has put together some 🔥 mockups for me, but before falling down that rabbit hole I wanted to run it by my users and the #nostrdesign  community. You can find the Figma below, along with some screenshots as well.

The goal for the re-design is to:

- Make using Coracle friendlier and more intuitive
- Make it look like it wasn't designed by an engineer
- Solve some complex UX issues, like custom feeds, nested modals, forms, etc.

Some questions I currently have:

- Is there too much uppercase text?
- Are the menus intuitive?
- Is it pretty? Is there anything you hate?

https://www.figma.com/file/dr0lpdEvs5536OrRZvjTrL/Coracle

https://i.nostr.build/RX3n.png
https://i.nostr.build/DJ38.png
https://i.nostr.build/XX3l.png


Coconuts the whole year. Melons are for summer ;)


Hello and welcome Jessica!


GM!


A beautiful song. A little bit sad but beautiful.

Le Chants Des Grives

https://open.spotify.com/track/7nkmJ4Xv8xiHsz0Rhm9kPV?si=yWA_PNDXT2St2PTigUAMfw


I don’t know. That sentence come out of the blue?


Everything is ok?


Somebody used to call me green but my favourite color is red.


Elon Musk is looking to raise $1 billion for xAI

Elon Musk is looking to raise one forty-fourth of a Twitter for his AI company, xAI. In other words, the man behind Tesla, SpaceX and X is seeking $1 billion in funding for his next venture. According to an SEC filing, Musk has raised about $135 million so far from four unnamed investors, with the […]
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