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 Assuming one with a #devops background would like to support Nostr by running infrastructure, what's the best way to do that?

If step 1 is running a relay, what would steps 2 and 3 be?

#asknostr 
 Turns out chopping wood is just as satisfying as I expected it to be 🪓 #camping 
 Feels like Elon's really looking for a daddy figure in his life. 
 For someone to constantly make such an ass of himself, one wonders if it was completely ego driven or what he was promised and by whom to do what he did. 
 Sad but true 
 Sleep and activity tracking, including mapping routes to calculate distance, without linking ID to either seems important.

Oura-like analysis to summarize data into suggested actions could be pretty nice to have too. 
 Post-2018 my crypto twitter feed quickly filled up with "revolutionaries" calling for tradfi institutions to save crypto, which quickly became web3 when the VCs took over.

Add to that over the past 12 months or so, culminating today, these same "radicals" celebrating the incoming US government administration for saving crypto.

Fortunately my #nostr feed is free of such nonsense and that's why I'm here. 
 the farther you move away from nature, the more you suffer. 
 The higher the tree to human ratio, the lower the suffering. 
 I just want a checking account with a debit card that allows me to save in Bitcoin. Why is that s... 
 Cash app worked well for me on #calyxos for quite some time. I finally ditched cash app though after one too many card compromises and their well known non-existent support. 
 After setting up an account, what are the 2-3 most important things a new Nostr user should do, e.g. pick a relay list, run their own, relay, etc.

Contrast this to traditional social media apps that force you to pick topics and accounts to follow.

#AskNostr 
 Don't worry, they'll send you two free months of credit monitoring when the info gets leaked. 
 So not surprising the economic numbers are so positive with so little time to go before the US presidential election. 
 I would be very willing to visit a custom feed like wss://noinfluencers.com/ that would automatic... 
 I'd like to see a way to get perspectives into my feed that are contrary to my self-confirmarion bias. Not quite sure how that would work here yet would still like to see it. 
 I carry frankincense with me for grounding purposes. Dialogue from people one row behind me when I broke it out at an MLB baseball game recently...

"you smell that?"

"yeah that's one of those oils..."

"yeah, it's that eucalyptus stuff..."

"right, they spray that stuff in the stadium now...."

"yeah, they're spraying that stuff everywhere!"

Posting this here because it's first place since then I've come across that this story would even remotely come close to connecting with... 
 Moving to #NYC right now is similar in timing to buying into crypto in 1Q22 
 TEN YEARS AGO SECURE BITCOIN COLD STORAGE WAS DIFFICULT.

FIVE YEARS AGO SECURE BITCOIN MULTISIG ... 
 Suggestions on multisig?

How about splitting the seed into two safe deposit boxes as different institutions? 
 It's not changing the political party that matters. What matters is changing the power structure they both enable and uphold. 
 God, I really and truly hate traditional banks.  
 So many reasons... 
 NY-style pizza sucks. 

GM. 
 Agreed and NY pizza is the best. 
 How easy/hard is it to connect a #ledger to #qubes these days?

The docs I've found seem quite outdated. So it's either become quite trivial or so hard that people have given up.

Second best and related, how easy/hard is it to connect a ledger to #ubuntu?

#asknostr 
 Ubuntu or Qubes, i.e. Ubuntu VM running on Qubes? 
 TIME IS OUR MOST SCARCE ASSET BUT WE CONSTANTLY WASTE IT. 
 I'd suggest attention is and we give it away way too cheaply. 
 The modern white-collar worker, is probably the most sun-starved human in history's bleak winter ... 
 For me -

Good days > 2 hrs outside

Better days > 4 hrs outside

Best days > 6 hrs outside

(And vitamin D pill are no substitute...) 
 I like the idea however have mixed feelings about bringing a computer outside. I guess if it is time I would have spent inside, that I can now spend outside, this could be beneficial. It does look great particularly for long form online reading. 
 Used #Qubes OS for real for the first time today.

I needed to update the WiFi settings for my Wi... 
 I've found the copy and move to other Qubes feature super convenient, once eI discovered it. Is this what you're using to move files among Qubes or have you found another way? 
 TradFi and centralized crypto institutions -

"We need all your private and confidential information to open an account. Don't worry, we keep it safe and are blah, blah, blah certified..

Also these institutions -

"Oops we got hacked and your private and personal information got leaked to the dark web. Here's a couple months of free credit monitoring. (Now go away and don't ask any questions.)" 
 Say one lives in an apartment in an urban area. What would you suggest as the first security and performance  upgrade to a setup that uses the provider's wifi router, hardwired to two separate wifi routers, one for my work and the other for the family stuff? 
 Thank you for this, much appreciated. I look forward to making this a weekend project in the very near future. 
 When you can no longer trust what you see or hear, go within. This is the way.

#ikitao 
 I grew up in a Roman Catholic household, rejected it, started a secular meditation practice, then gradually studied Buddhism. Today I'm a practicing Buddhist.

Why?

Because over the years I learned to rely on myself, not others. Catholicism teaches one to look for an external savior. Buddhism teaches one to look inside for what one needs. 

So the latter is much more synchronized with my worldview. 
 Interested. Working to make #qubesos my daily driver and want an ergonomic setup to plug a small laptop into. I've been hesitant to use a USB keyboard or mouse, which blocks the idea of an ergonomic setup. 
 After spending time in Singapore it's harder than ever to not view the United States as a slowly, yet accelerating, crumbling empire. 
 #qubesos needs a built-in incremental backup function. 
 Ever walked through the diamond district in NYC? An entire city avenue block long but it looks like this place dwarfs even it.

The Pentagon is probably appropriately-sized for America's military-industrial complex and associated bureaucracy. 

The diamond industry I guess enjoys such huge margins on small stones they don't know what else to do with it.

The book describing the history of DeBeers is pretty fascinating if you haven't already read it. The anecdote that still sticks with me nearly 20 years after reading it is the one about how DeBeers pretty much invented and popularized the engagement ring. 
 Tradfi boyz hoping hard that NYC becomes crypto's capital so they can still get that condo in Williamsburg and move there w/their girl's flufferdoodle. 
 How do all these exchanges keep getting "hacked" - I never see any post mortems on what happened
... 
 They're probably not "allowed" to disclose details due to regulations put in place to keep their customers "protected" out of "an abundance of caution" 
 How do we disable #replyguy? 
 Hey nostr:npub1c9d95evcdeatgy6dacats5j5mfw96jcyu79579kg9qm3jtf42xzs07sqfm

What can we do to get ... 
 Why not F-Droid? 
 Visualizing current conditions on #cycling routes shared on a NOSTR powered, privacy preserving Strava alternative. 
 Will #ReplyGuy damage #nostr.
#asknostr 
 What's the best way to deal w/it right now? I've seen some talk about filtering with relays, however with mixed results. 
 people put their attention elsewhere 

nostr:note1l4mc4y6lu86c2pjwe93m7fkeredcfk4ee0sqlfcc9fktq3u... 
 We prioritize efficiency over beauty. 
 Does anyone have a solar powered #Starlink setup going that they're happy with? #AskNostr 
 America's becoming a country whose population can't bend over to put on and tie their shoes. 
 WE NEED MORE OPEN SOURCE PROJECT MANAGER TYPE MOTIVATED INDIVIDUALS LIKE nostr:npub1ug8c5wp6chs4x... 
 I volunteered as a PM to get started on my first crypto project. The project lead wrote a post-mortem about a failed product launch. I replied to him describing how a PM could help the next launch attempt succeed and joined the project based on a subsequent conversation.

I do find it difficult to be accepted as a PM in the decentralized world, although as the year have passed that resistance seems to be diminishing. Rather than "management"I tend to think of the work as "coordinatation", which tends to be perceived as less centralized and heavy handed.

One tactical step you could take is to create a GitHub project board from an existing project and try and do some initial organization of current issues. If you're not a contributor to the repo, try forking it and creating the board in your fork.

Hope that helps a little... 
 Looking for a privacy preserving self-hosted blog stack #asknostr  that goes beyond "nobody can connect the server IP to my identity" cc: nostr:nprofile1qqsrkl7gyds37xh2af37uwlknvjm32ska3hgr5d0cwgzdqy0ux2r2ncpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skcwhq0n8 
 I'm not pointing fingers but I was promised a bull market  
 Just one more flush, really this time... 
 #asknostr

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 Thanks. I'm assuming that to add the NIP-05 address to your profile you have to prove ownership of the address? 
 Observing what's happening in the US makes more sense when the US is framed as a deteriorating superpower about to pass the torch (or have it taken), rather than as the world's dominant superpower having a firm grasp on that role. 
 Two question as I get started here -

- is there an easy way to find the Nostr accounts associated with X accounts (assuming the Nostr account exists)

- how can one identify legit accounts of popular Nostr users? Right now I'm going based on highest follower count among the various impersonator accounts  
 #asknostr

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 Seems like the frequency of SEC enforcement actions is highly correlated to the likelihood of interest rate cuts.