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 zyn is lab-made nicotine 
 We reject: kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

—David Clark,1992 
 bitkey app is getting really good https://apps.apple.com/app/id6476990471 
 damus keeps switching to dark mode during the day. randomly. 
 the iphone is the greatest tool we have for learning and creation. 

but most of us are diminished by the gravity of consumption.

try removing all those apps for 3 days. 
 eh. they will have to come around. 
 don’t cry 
 the os is really good at categorizing and searching for you 
 Stoked to finally have RHIZAL on Nostr 👋

Anyone know a good BTC app for Shopify? Last I looke... 
 the honey ones look almost bitcoin orange 
 Apologies to all Primal users who experienced slowness over the past few days. We identified some... 
 exactly the same 
 nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m what do you prefer, Bluesky... 
 nostr 
 this thing is cool but maybe keep the removed parts out of the text too nostr:note1qqqqrgujecm94ydyjm9sl4xl2ndtzg57eyw5y3pphlwexsta7wfqtu5mmt 
 ah 
 got it 
 maybe anonymize it then? just show as example? 
 agree. it’s a great elimination diet to test a lot. nostr:note1kd4ft3pktzem8smlfrvn9ffwckspat5ngcrdaapahp0lkp6qcpxqzsa4ry 
 i hope it’s just me

but primal is now completely unusable for me due to slowness. web and all. 
 the 3rd most downloaded app in the US: a wildfire watch app. 

go ahead, tell me why reply guy https://image.nostr.build/ff32f0b20a8e085b123a95a3284d34f0182c3df82f5d07c5c60f5176b74c8d08.jpg  
 why and how did you join nostr? 
 🫂 
 🫂 
 In before nostr:npub14am887cf6kvwkce89nt7dsw3v9qrrn0uppxyvr6a2jd7xdwuwccqwnudp2 made his first po... 
 uh oh 
 e2ee private communities. 

that’s what brings people to nostr. 

bet. 
 how’s that encryption? 
 caching services don’t add speed it turns out 
 it’s auto according to my day time 

as it should be 
 yes 
 this finally might be better 
 zero 
 macOS 15 safari is super fast.

don't use chrome. 
 used to be openbsd only. 

linux before that. 

no going back for me. 
 yes alas 
 this is my new startsmall tracker. all money movements will be recorded here. foundation is focused on crisis relief, girls health and education, and free and open source software. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-ycOLoA496Qj37IHJvrXO3Vg2ETvMphtRGjyv2FNn8c/edit?gid=0#gid=0 
 chill b it’s a spreadsheet that a tiny team updates. give me an alternative that scales and has these features. 
 how’s it scaling? fast display of 10s of thousands of rows? 
 never funded them 
 my foundation 
 today i learned about qubits, superposition, and entanglement 
 At what point is someone a nostr user

If they don't have to post, do they have to at least follo... 
 whenever a note is viewed

(but, right now, that's hard and slow to do)

nostr:note1njt8znc5d8pq7sqfwy0e7y9z2chz5hvq86ee87wgdj7ndjq4hc2q5genn0  
 can no longer tell how much of this is real versus marketing

nostr:note17gmdqtqtw2wnuvp7plk6z8w2405cj26dh2yv29mwpkxs40vjp5nqypkwwc  
 thank you 
 keep telling yourself that. it'll help eventually. 
 come back after some study. you know nothing. 
 this site is great

but instead of using nostr over arxiv.org it built a bunch of custom stuff

lesson here

 https://www.alphaxiv.org/explore 
 gossip won’t save you 
 (although the nostr client might) 
 simpleX is getting good 
 ask yourself 

what value is this providing me? 
 reduce reduce reduce 
 Olá, Brasil 
 just joined nostr via primal. why am I automatically following 124 accounts? how were those accou... 
 i don’t know either 
 damus is still the fastest out there 
 We should stop pairing NIP-5 with the word "verification". For newcomers it risks being a shitcoi... 
 agree 
 agree 
 reddit down? 
 down bad