New UI updates for DiVine before we push to ZapStore for our initial Android beta release.

6 months ago I listed to a podcast about Vine and its history. It got me thinking, how hard could it be to bring Vine back, but open and on Nostr. That lead to me building divine.video and announcing it in November. It got tons of attention, and I’ve been working hard to fix my vibe coded prototype in to something which would be usable by mainstream noobies. The Nostr tech and community has been critical to this, I couldn’t have done it without you all. The podcast, Vine: 6 seconds that changed the world, reached out to me and they’ve put out an episode about Divine! It’s really good, talks about how divine came to be and really gets in to our movement for open permissionless protocols. They do it in a way that’s not technical or overly jargony. Please take a listen and share it.

Fountain

Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World • Did We Bring Back Vine? • Listen on Fountain

Vine is coming back, and we might have helped resurrect it. First, Elon Musk announced plans to revive Vine in “AI form”. A few months later, n...

This is an interesting project to more safely run agents in yolo mode on your own machine, without a container.

GitHub

GitHub - canyonroad/agentsh: Secure, policy-enforced execution gateway for AI agents. agentsh sits under your agent/tooling—intercepting file, network, and process activity (including subprocess trees), enforcing the policy you define, and emitting structured audit events.

Secure, policy-enforced execution gateway for AI agents. agentsh sits under your agent/tooling—intercepting file, network, and process activity ...

@miljan I’ve noticed that primal doesn’t unfollow someone when you mute them. Basically meaning you still get their content. This feels like a bug. :-)🐛

I was wondering why I feel so tired then I realized that I’m at the end of my second night in a row in an airport lounge due to flight delays. Ugh.

“The future of Greenland and Denmark are decided solely by the people of Denmark," Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said. This unfortunately wasn't the affirmation of sovereignty Greenland deserves. It should solely be decided by the people of Greenland not Denmark!

BBC News

Danish minister says 'fundamental disagreement' with US and Trump on Greenland

US Vice-President JD Vance hosted ministers from Denmark and Greenland to discuss the Arctic territory's future.

Sometimes I choose to fly via Brasil just so I can get Pão de Queijo. So good.

How far could it be, Dubai to Bogota? REALLY FAR...

This is what it feels like living in New Zealand...

The Spinoff

Trying to enjoy the NZ summer while the world burns

The sausage of our Kiwi summer has come with a cheesy filling of existential dread.

There's something interesting about this new project to build a trans Africa rail network with funding from the middle east and china. I was of course first proposed by the horribly racist Cecil Rhodes in his colonial ambitions as the Cape to Cairo railway a 150 years ago. I like the narrative of former colonies planning and building their own infrastructure. On part I thought was interesting is the Dakar - Port Sudan railway is being funded as a way to provide more affordable way to do the hajj pilgrimage. Making affordable a recreation of what was the most expensive road trip in the history of humanity, when the richest man in history, Mansa Musa. Although it seems like Mansa took a route along the north coast of Africa, not straight across southern Sahara desert as the new railway plans to go. Obviously the real impact will be economic as it'll mean the land locked countries of the south Sahara will get access to fast, cheap, and reliable transportation, especially for freight. The lack of reliable road and rail infrastructure is a lot of what has held Africa's development back. I've watched videos of travellers who go via car or motorcycle down the west coast of Africa or try and drive across the Congo to go from west to east Africa, and it's bad. Many countries are barely connected at all. The infrastructure that exists was mostly built by European colonial powers to extract natural resources without any concern for regional connections or economic development.

Cape to Cairo Railway - Wikipedia

Mansa Musa - Wikipedia

What does art taste like?

It’s interesting, my video feeds on TikTok, instagram, and YouTube shorts have so little resemblance of each other. Totally different kinds of videos, not just topics or creators, but totally different genres. Nothing alike. It’s weird because I know all the videos I see on one are uploaded to the other two. I am not trying to get the algorithms to diverge. I interact in mostly the same way to the same videos on all three but get a really different experience. Given that they are mostly clones of each other this is surprising. Is that the case for anyone else? When I open divine.video I mostly get testing and debug videos. So no comparison yet.

I’m in Dubai for this creators summit and they brought us out in to the desert for an evening activity, which turns out included a neon horse.

Happy New Year

Quotes about the internet from the Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the internet book by Geert Lovink

Institute of Network Cultures | Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet

There’s a debate raging over in the Bluesky world about whether or not infrastructure providers on ATprotocol should be neutral carriers or if people running things like PDS servers should be able to choose who they host. It’s an interesting read and worth thinking about. From a Nostr perspective it’s like arguing for a custodial system then being upset at the power dynamics that exist because of that. I’m curious what folks think. I think the poster kicked a hornets nest, not understanding how communities of users react to being told what they should or shouldn’t do with their own servers. Thoughts?

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This is a really interesting solution to the Nostr login system from @bigmarh View article →