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 It is my belief that a local relay is critical for the success of outbox model. We don’t have t... 
 No need to apologize, this is great. I'm eager to try out Damus android when it's ready. 
 The local relay acts as a very fast local cache for notes and profiles, it also enables offline u... 
 Is this way of developing related to the "outbox" model? I am unfamiliar with this as well and only recently started seeing it mentioned. 
 Do you have a illustration about what the local relay does at a high level. I'm trying to understand the apparent move to having local relays in clients? 
 can these 'nobody' accounts be restored? or are they permanently 'deleted'? I think this is a dam... 
 They can be restored. You can't really delete keys. You could lose them I guess. 
 The idea that code is protected free speech makes me laugh. The regime defines what free speech is, so they can just make it so code isn't included in that. They already do this with pretty much anything else related to "free speech" (which no one believes in anyway). 
 Multiculturalism is doomed fail. NOSTR is multicultural so by extension it will also fail. 
 UGH libertarians. You are right though, good point. I was more thinking of the vision of NOSTR, as I currently understand it. 
 Hi, I'm new to Go, and I've been tinkering around with the go-nostr library.

I am having an issue with my subscriptions not ending (or I am not understanding out to manage my subscriptions)

For now I am just trying to print all the stored events and then exit. However it just hangs until the context times out.

https://pastebin.com/BGNhRx3P 
 I think this had to do with one of the relays I was subscribing to. My mistake for not starting smaller. 
 Become nobody. Embrace not mattering. It is a privilege to be forgotten.

As a man, and speaking from experience. 
 Time to leave the U.S.? 
 Can't (or won't). Family is here.  Plus where would I go that isn't a shithole? US is on it's way there for sure. But better to stay put and try to start an enclave or something. 
 That is also fair, I don't travel much (never really had the desire to). I should not have painted with such a broad brush. 
 Building something for nostr is hard. It might just be because I'm at the edge of my competence (currently). But it's an interesting challenge. I'm also using a language I have little experience with.

(Go for the curious) 
 This is a test thread. 
 This is a response to my test thread. 
 This is the second response to my test thread. 
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 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111255/

Sylvester Stallone plays a bomb specialist, Sharon Stone plays a woman out for revenge. They both stalk eachother. Peak cringe. Also peak James Woods as the bad guy. 8/10. 
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083941/

SAS soldier goes undercover to stop some Communists and their dastardly plot (as one does) 
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114287/

Liam Neeson as a Scot trying to deal with a plot to get fucked (figuratively speaking) by the psychopathic henchman of a Nobel. It has duels and stuff. 
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102744/

Tom Selleck is a sniper basically from the west. Goes to Austraila to make some money, meets some crazy broad with big tits (played by  Laura San Giacomo)  and Australian Hans Gruber and things pretty much go down hill from there. 
 How many of you have read anything by John Maynard Keynes?

#asknostr 
 I wish I could differentiate between a "quiet mode" and a full mute. 
 Not yet. I only have a handful of follows though. 
 Yea, that makes sense. Even a blind pig finds a truffle now and then. 
 User discovery on Nostr is hard. Please shill me 2-3 npubs to follow. These should be profiles yo... 
 You should read On Doing the Right Thing, a collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock. In one essay he talks about this sort of thing. He opines that a soceity is immature if it can't have conversations. 

Archive: https://archive.org/details/OnDoingTheRightThing
Mises: https://mises.org/library/book/doing-right-thing
https://mises.org/mises-daily/decline-conversation 
 Personally I think this is because of too much individualism. However, I'm no expert on such things. I just feel this intuitively. I also have no perscriptions on how to change it. It's just the way things are now. 
 Most people cannot think. They outsource their thinking all the time to their percieved betters. It's been this way since the dawn of human civilization. Plus, humans are tribal by nature. We're social creatures who are part of communities. Maybe that's family or your town or whatever.

I can get behind the idea that as individuals we must invest ourselves completely in our communities, though. 
 #asknostr Not sure this is the write tag, but who here self-hosts AI models? If you do, which one would you recommend for image generation?

I have used Ollama, but as far as I can tell it does not support image generation. 
 For the intellectually curious:

https://www.marxists.org/english.htm

It's basically a huge repository of marxist lit (hence the name) 
 Interestingly enough those things were all born from liberalism.
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Mel Gibson plays a son of a bitch out for revenge.  
 It's the director's cut. 
 I'm still trying to figure out if I like the theatrical release or the directors cut better. 
 I have interacted with at least one person who seems cool, so it is not like it's been all bad—in fact, I wouldn't characterize it as "bad" at all. Just underwhelming. 
 It's a really cool idea but only in theory. Again: so far, I've only been on here a few days.  
 At a high level I think the most offputting thing is that people on here are convinced it will just work out. Like magic. I'm not saying it won't, I don't know if it will.  
 A note sent from nostrudel 
 Standing in a carpark drinking kefir. AMA 
 What flavour? 
 Hero. 
 #asknostr #introductions 

Newbie here. I'm been using snort, and while it is a beautiful app and I have had a good experience, I am looking for a nostr app that is perhaps geared to a different kind of content. I'm thinking maybe more long form content and communities? Maybe a way to bookmark stuff I see? 
 Sweet, I'll go check that out. Thank you. 
 I've played with Coracle some, I like it because it displays threads well. Nostrudel too, I don't know what to think of it yet.

Thank you. 
 PC. 
 Thanks for this too. 
 Yes. Books (Fiction and Non), History,  Art, Thought, Craftsmanship, Music, almost anything besides Bitcoin. 
 I'm a little bummed about nostr, I had high hopes, but I'm not that impressed. 

Granted, I've only been here like two seconds. 
 generally speaking: non-cultish behavior and thought. 
 Encouraging lol! 
 Yea, I get that. 

I currently don't think what I am looking for exists on the internet, or rather social media type platforms (or protocols) on the internet. I don't they are environments that attract the quality of people I would like to be around. 
 Sure, plenty:

- Kids dying of hunger.
- People living now believing the earth is flat.
- Libertarians

While I personally don't care for Tattoos and I prefer my women without them, it isn't a deal breaker for me at all.

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 #introductions  Since I am new, I hope you don't mind if I continue to use the intro tag while I get familiar with this place.

A little about me. 

- I like being prepared for stuff, I have a flashlight and everything.
- Developer (yes, another one I'm afraid)
- I recently found I like classical music (Zadok the Priest, amirite?)
- I am not a bitcoiner (or a shitcoiner or whatever)

What is NOSTRs best kept secret in terms of apps to use? 
 Thank you, We'll see if there is something meaningful for me to contribute. 
 Thank you. 
 This feels like starting over. 
 #introductions  Hi.