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 Boeing slogan -- When one door closes, another door opens.

#humour #737max 
 In full transparency, Boeing admitted to their mistake. They have an open door policy.

#humour #737max 
 Nostr needs a sprinkle of AI so that my feed can be tailored to me. I don't want to be flooded with posts by the same user, and there's stuff out there I would be interested in but which remain hidden as a non-follower.

AI could be implemented at the client-level so that the model remains private.

#nostr #ai 
 Is there a way to mark a publicly accessible relay as private? It's whitelisted for myself, but other's won't be able to use it for publishing. Yet, it still shows up on nostr.watch.

#nostr #relays 
 Any Body Here? 
 is it urgent? 
 Soundtrack of Sid Meier's Colonization. Good memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5A9kNf1XZY&t=2s

#dosgaming 
 Remember Gopher from the early internet days? Now we have a modern day equivalent, the Gemini protocol. Essentially, the WWW, but focused on text content.

https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini 
 I got a private Nostr relay up and running. Is there a tool I can use to search other relays for my posts and rebroadcast them over to my private relay?

#nostr #relays 
 Quote I recently heard that resonated with me:

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

 
 Anonymity on Nostr via Nym. Similar to Tor and I2P.

https://medium.com/notrustverify/nostr-x-nym-1593b359f99a 
 I just remembered; in the likes of Nym, Tor and I2P, there is also Lokinet (Oxen):

https://lokinet.org/ 
 Hey nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr! I love noStrudel and w... 
 Same here, I love that client! 
 802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0BHnmi9j8&t=204s 
 When we talk about decentralization, we seldom think about the hardware connection to our ISPs. If our ISP or the government pulls the plug, we're completely left in the dark. This is where independent 5G access comes in:

https://blog.helium.com/dish-first-major-carrier-to-bring-helium-5g-to-the-people-10da0e899792 
 Do you know of anything better? I think Helium supports LORA and 5g in the US only. 
 Instead of running a private relay just so as not to lose your post history, why couldn't we have a Nostr client which backups up everything up on our behalf? 
 Cool, thanks! 
 Some newer languages I've stumbled upon recently: 

Vlang
Zig
Odin
Jai
Unison
Nim
ts-fp
Lobster
Grain
nim


#programming_languages

 
 I think the technology used by Nostr would allow it to be used in a Sneakernet environment. 
 How can a Nostr community on Nostr have so few members? Where is everyone hiding? I see 5 members. Is that because I'm not using a popular relay? 
 Is Nostr the most mainstream decentralized Twitter alternative now? 
 Communites without moderation?

I want to start a Reddit-like community for my organization but I don't feel it's right that I should be the moderator just because I am the one who initiates it. I want the community to be a place for everyone to share their thoughts anonymously, without censorship. Is there a Nostr NIP or client that would allow this but without "moderators"? Maybe using some kind of mechanism where everything is voted for by the community? or maybe some kind of reputation system? I'd like to avoid giving authority to anyone in particular. 
 Actually, the solution described here is exactly what I had in mind. I believe he calls it "a shallow web of trust"?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/qijq8r/comment/himxu5e/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Advantages (quote):

- There's no subreddit ownership, so they can't be bought or sold.

- There's no censorship apart from what users implicitly opt in to.

- There's no clique of old mods imposing their will on new users for eternity, instead there's contributors who are currently trusted by some segment of the current user base, and these change over time.

- Downvotes carry a reputation risk - moderation abuse is public and controversial moderation decisions will cause trust in that moderator to be lost.

- Echo chambers can only form around those who really want to be in an echo chamber, they don't get to force the rest of us to live in their petty little filter bubble. 
 Another similar solution, after watching Rabble's YT video "Nostr for Normies"; TrustNet. 
 I hope someday reposts and zaps completely replace the need for “likes”/🤙🏼.

Reposts an... 
 Don't take likes away from me. As a normie, I don't care about bitcoin or zaps. 
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 +1 for Lenovo. A bit more expensive, but the quality is there I think. 
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 I can relate to that! 
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 good memories!