I don't understand why you would announce the end-all-be-all solution of a decentralized, user-controlled Internet on a centralized, corporate-owned blog platform. How can I trust you to bring about this amazing new Internet technology when you're unable to publish a simple Web page under your own control? 🤔

"We may not be the best in presenting ourselves, but what matters is that we onboarded the FBI" to Tether's compliance systems, he added. "We onboarded the U.S. Secret Service. We have thank-you letters from the DOJ … We think we are doing, you know, the best we can." — Paolo Ardoino Tether already looks a lot like a semi-private U.S. CBDC. And it makes sense, since the Federal Reserve banks are privately owned, too. May as well extend the current collaborations with some kind of permanent oversight board, stacked with more government bureaucrats.

Pubky looks promising. I already believed that the Mainline DHT could be the best way of resolving DIDs in a truly decentralized fashion, when I saw this idea a while ago: https://did-dht.com

@laanwj I have some Markdown suggestions for your @npub1ga6s...uqm2 release content... 1. Use `<h2>` and lower (i.e.`##`, `###`) for headlines in the article content 2. Use a proper link element for the magnet links (i.e. `[Magnet link](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e18e92024...)`

Bitcoin Core Project on Nostr

You can configure Substr for multiple relays and arbitrary username/pubkey pairs, so this is how I'm reading @fiatjaf's articles now (and finally not missing any, because new ones will pop up in my feed reader):

fiatjaf on Nostr

(Also, that content was great for fixing a bunch of content styles, URI parsing/linking, and more.)

Hey Brits, what's a good link I could give to a future-coiner living in the UK, who was just asked by a freelancer in Ghana to pay invoices in BTC, but who has no idea how bitcoin works at all? No knowledge, no wallet, no coins. Where do I send them?

Feedbin picked up my Substr blog's article update. Nothing surprising there; it's just always great to see multiple open protocols working seamlessly in combination.

@bumi I don't quite remember what the outcome of your experiments with adding v4v to RSS feeds was. Is there a spec (informal or not) by any chance, that I can use to add Lightning addresses to Substr feeds?

"MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements."

LWN.net

Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

Perhaps one of the more surprising changes in the 6.12-rc4 development kernel was the removal o [...]

Substr is almost ready for a public alpha release. If you want to host your own blog on Nostr soon, follow my posts, and/or the releases feed on Gitea. Sneak preview:

Râu Cao ⚡ on Nostr

Source code (not yet documented):

Gitea

substr

Nostr-backed multi-user blog renderer

Please tell me that nobody is using the name "substr" for any of their Nostr software yet. (I did do a quick search and couldn't find any results.)

Gitea

substr

Nostr-backed multi-user blog renderer

Initially, I didn't want to spend the whole Sunday on this, but it's basically almost done now. I started building a nice server-side renderer for long-form content on our Nostr relay: The next step is to create human-readable URLs, i.e. `/@username/article-id`. But my favorite feature will be `/@username/articles.rss`, because if it doesn't have an RSS feed, it's not a blog.

Fun fact from #hcpp24: I asked one of the crew how many payments during the conference she would estimate have been done via #LightningNetwork vs #Monero. She said about 30% XMR, but that she wished everyone used Lightning, because of how slow the Monero payments are. Point of Sale is just bad UX for anything taking longer than a few seconds. Only really committed merchants will tolerate that, and even then it's rough for them.

Anyone else here going to HCPP next week? Finally got all the things booked (except for onward travel, naturally).

Embarrassing typos are the worst on a protocol, where a lot of clients don't properly deal with delete requests. :/