gm, Bruno Maçaes published this book called World Builders, about how nation states dont compete for territory and resources anymore but for the ability to define the virtual worlds you live in, from news to web to social to AI and so on. He argues 21st century power means the ability to build these worlds. Nostr is that. We're terraforming a nation of the mind. A fundamental builder's culture.

why couldn't we let users sign events / log in by presenting a qr code, and have the user sign from their signing app? wouldn't go thru relays, signer could be offline. would be a bit of a QR dance (scan then be scanned), but otherwise seems ok. #asknostr

Reading this ongoing exchange btw jamesob and voskuil and i think voskuil is arguing that bitcoin scales with ecash. Its in the "Substitution Principle" chapter of Cryptoeconomics. He's saying that this is how *all* monies scale, by substitutes whose risk in redemption is offset by their lesser cost. https://x.com/evoskuil/status/19197788968089275218 https://voskuil.org/cryptoeconomics/cryptoeconomics.pdf

so good

@calle Marcus Aurelius, bronze 🤌 https://www.ateliermissor.com/products/buste-de-marc-aurele-en-bronze

still insane how LN is the best payment UX on earth

anybody want to review a nix flake PR 😊 kind of interesting if you ever wondered why the flake-inputs library is added to every flake -- this removes it. 🔪 unnecessary deps

GitHub

Remove flake-inputs; refactor and split out package by jurraca · Pull Request #39 · asmap/kartograf

Besides removing a dependency for the project, this refactors the flake to be a bit cleaner. Using flake-utils makes expressing "for each syst...

in albyHub's impl of LDK, whats the block data source? Should be easy to make that a setting so it can be pointed to a local node. Cant find a mention of the default data source.

"There are many ways to lose the Oldest Game. Failure of nerve, hesitation, being unable to shift into a defensive position. Lack of imagination." - Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

glad we're talking about covenants again :) Does anyone have any code examples of APO (BIP-118) implementations? Found this but thats it

GitHub

GitHub - darosior/simple-anyprevout-vault: James O'Beirne's CTV vault adapted to using ANYPREVOUT instead of CTV

James O'Beirne's CTV vault adapted to using ANYPREVOUT instead of CTV - darosior/simple-anyprevout-vault

anybody know whats up with the Vesuvius challenge thing? Did they decode more scrolls? #asknostr

cachix uses hashcash to prevent spam, neat.

Cachix Blog | Downtime due to sign up spam

Hetzner requires photo ID and selfie for an account, wut

Riva's somehow always on fire. https://thespectator.com/politics/matter-wins-lose-donald-trump-election/

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just finished Banks' "The Player of Games" from the Culture series. Twas excellent.

Stacker News

Book Review: The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks \ stacker news

The second book of the Culture series shows Banks significantly upping his game in the storytelling, style, and ideas of the alien worlds he dunks ...

a cryptic halloween to all

8-Bit Oracle

8-Bit Oracle — 3,000 Years of Pattern Recognition

The I-Ching, rendered in code. Mathematically authentic yarrow casting, read line by line, through a tech-noir digital interface.

so good, always wanted to build exactly this.

ghostty 1.0 prob implies charm dot sh have been cooking some next level stuff for the terminal 🙏

Full text search in postgres without elastic, yes pls

ParadeDB 0.11.0, database access layers, AND YOU!

Also announcing Paradex for Ecto