Few know this.
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If they offered them "res publica" (to the larger public), then those would indeed be public relays.
Those would probably be the most-restrictive relays, tho, not the least-restrictive ones.
Anyone can setup a relay, including governments. I'm running or managing like 6 of them, now, and I spin some temporary ones up, for testing, using NAK. I have two that only run on localhost.
They're just servers running over websockets, like half of the Internet. It's the communication protocol they use, that's novel, not the idea of sending json events from one machine to another. We were doing that, on an industrial scale, five years ago.
The difference being that the database is usually _in addition_ to a relay. It's like a relay backend. A backend to a backend, basically.
And it's another thing that could break. Adds complexity and maintenance costs, not necessarily storage costs. Also raises the cost of onboarding new maintainers, as it's one more thing they have to learn.
I do a lot of pipelining and chaining, and each little thing included drives up the chance of the whole thing breaking.
Well, yeah, but most Nostr stuff isn't serious. The Serious People have all at least looked into adding databases.
Scriptkiddies aren't going to bother worrying about query optimization, complex filters, persistent versioning, and etc.
They're just like:
1) Use AI and NDK to make a buggy javascript client
2) Post note to internet over domain only paid through for 3 months
3)
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Yeah, but that's why database integration and migration is a nightmare. Using a communications protocol to structure the core intra-db communication, so, that it can transit over common relays, is next-gen document db. Especially, as the protocol increasingly branches into subdomains, with their own specialty events.
Turns the Internet into a real Internet of Databases, rather than mere web pages.
So few have done it because most of the devs aren't DBMs. 😅
It's only really getting traction, now, because the relay devs and data analysts have started working on it, and their npubs are finally large enough for everyone interested to see what they're saying.
Team Backend has entered the chat.
Yeah, we're living with Oma and spending vacations with Grandma and Grandpa. My sister and my nieces are near the grandparents' tho, so we sometimes stay in rentals, on visits, because it's three generations in the house, and the teenagers are dating, and sometimes other relatives are visiting, so it's starting to get rowdy.
Fourth generation will probably start arriving soon, in both locations, and then the neighbors will start calling the police about the clan next door, parking the up the entire street.
Proud to be THOSE people. 😅
If you then onboard someone, just whitelist them on your relay and add it to their relay list. They immediately see your feed and can pick out their own favorites.
We disintermediate feed from favorites. These are actually two different concepts that deserve two different controls.
Just have to go to the relay manager, in their client, and save the relay settings in the appropriate event kind. All major clients have that, now.
Just go to https://metadata.nostr.com, or some other profile manager or onboarding client, and adjust the relays there. When they go to any other client, it'll pull that list.
😂 You could say the same about memes, I guess, but pictures add context/tone and are more fun.
Also causes less confusion about what is meant as snark, ranting, joking, etc.
Back in the day, we would have long arguments on bulletin boards about intended tone, so we started adding :-D and :-P ROFLMAO etc.
That's right. I am pre-emoji.
Well, we created letters as a more efficient way to write pictures, by spelling out the names of the pictures by their sound.
Other languages stayed hieroglyphic.
But emojis are more like accent marks or "asides".
It would be highly ironic, if we reinvented WeChat through the massive detour of an open protocol. 😂
Would have been a gigantic waste of years of my life and 6 months' income.
And why bother having a relay seperate from the client? Everyone uses one relay, included with the client, and everyone uses the same client.
Perfect efficiency, right? Well, yes. But is it most effective, for achieving the goals of censorship resistance and data sovereignty? Don't know. I guess we'll soon find out. 🤷🏻♀️
I mean, it's easier to load-test Nostr than most other systems because you don't have to create user logins and you can write straight to the data store.
You can just use NAK to auto-generate nsecs and go for it. Could generate hundreds of them on your laptop and have them all running a Jenkins script, asynchronously. With a good graphic card, probably thousands of them.
Not even just writing to the relays, but fetching, clicking buttons, typing, etc. So, you can load-test the apps, as well, and take down websites.
It's that time of year, again, where food takes so long to prepare, that the wine 🍷 is out, before the sauce is finished.
Cheers!
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My wallets and clients never work. Constantly hitting the little zap button and nada.
Have to wait until I'm back on my PC, and by then I've forgotten.
When I complain about something someone else built, my thread is immediately flooded with people telling me to try building something, myself, for once. When I build something, myself, and write about it, hardly anyone notices or cares.
This is what it's like, being at the bottom of the #dev food chain. 😏
Well, honestly, SQL, Groovy, and Visual Basic (for and against Applications) 😅
Umm... PHP, Java, and I'm starting with Python because everyone says I have to.
Yeah, it's sort of traumatic. Usually caused by having different relays in different clients, and some of them not having the newest version of your mute list. Every time you mute someone, you make a new list.
I had to switch to relay muting.
Okay, finally got them all working.
Still need to add the content, but that's actually the easy part.
Going to bed. GN
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I've been wanting to do this, for so long, and I was too out of sorts to make it to Mass, so I did this, instead. Really excited about it.
NOSTR NEEDED THE DIVINE OFFICE! 🤩
I'll eventually have a python version, for #Alexandria, but I'm in charge of PHP implementations, so I'm doing a couple of small projects with that, to warm up. I was just doing databases for a couple of years.
I like the PHP Helper library, tho. Recommend.
This would be nice in #Alexandria, now that I think of it. Maybe have a simplified Morning/Evening version for long-form, that also posts a note in kind 01, and then the full shebang on Alexandria, for the real Liturgy nerds.
It's just a question of how often we want the posts appearing in the feed. Might as well do all of them.
I'm going to post under the German account in English, according to Berlin time, and under the English account in Texas time. It is supposed to be a rough sort of clock.
6: Lauds
9: Terce
12: Sext
15: None
18: Vespers
21: Compline
00 and 03: The Office/Vigil
The office is for the night watch, so it goes in shifts and will be repeated.
Okay, finally got them all working.
Still need to add the content, but that's actually the easy part.
Going to bed. GN
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Does anyone else stick the headphone earplugs in and then never get around to turning on the music? I do that for hours, every day, and don't even notice. 😅
I thought that listening to music was helping me focus, but it turns out, that the earplugs themselves are the key.
Yeah, like stuffing cotton balls in my ears. I usually sit at the dining room table, and it can be like a train station.
I also notice, they all leave me alone, when I have the earphones in. It's my "do not disturb" sign.
Ah, real note 🧵 ? I think, right now, it's just replies posted rapidly in succession, in the hopes that nobody posts in-between. But, as soon as people start replying, the thread breaks down a bit.
It's not a bug. Articles don't usually have `a` tags. I was trying them out, to see how the clients would respond. Since no clients use `a` tags, I'm considering using them for something novel.
The pubkey is contained in the naddr.
Few know this.
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For the record:
I am building an extensive, professional-quality, fully-automated, test landscape for our #Alexandria and #GitRepublic projects, and all associated relays. And my repos are FOSS, and I'm going to design them to be easily forked-and-customized. That means I can use it to expertly test our products, as if I were a crazy hacker.
It also means that a real, actual, crazy hacker can use those same tools to test ANY APP and ANY RELAY, so long as he has a computer, can read my clear instructions, and doesn't have shit for brains.
You're welcome.
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