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the Guardian

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Judge said ban, which originated in Reconstruction era to thwart liquor tax evasion, actually reduced tax revenue

It's easier to escape Earth's gravitation pull than it is to escape #Microslop View quoted note →

Went on a chilly ride this morning My car needed some work done, so that's in the shop and I figured I'd take my motorcycle in to work today. Though of course, lol, nothing can ever be so simple - had battery issues and it turned out to be a lot colder this morning than expected (had to scrape ice off the inside of my helmat, and did a lot of driving with an open visor). But at least I made it to work, and it's supposed to get a lot warmer later today and tomorrow. #motorcycles #substr

I wanted to try out NIP-B0 (public bookmarks/link aggregation), and since it looks like most clients are works in progress, I wound up vibing a fork of MKpinja.

Vibemarks - Decentralized Bookmarking

A decentralized bookmarking service built on the Nostr protocol. Save, organize, and share your favorite web content with complete ownership and co...

GitHub

GitHub - 0n4t3/bookmark-nostr

Contribute to 0n4t3/bookmark-nostr development by creating an account on GitHub.

It's not exactly a premium client, you're probably better off using using a different bookmarking client once some better clients finish supporting the NIP. But if anyone wanted to give it a try it's there in the meantime. Honestly, the setup was really easy. Hadn't used Shakespeare before, I plugged in a free OpenRouter model and it went pretty seamlessly. Total cost for a custom client with a feature combo I was looking for (and couldn't find elsewhere) was $0 to build and deploy. #nostr #vibecoding #NIP-B0

Growing tomatoes from a McDonald's burger I'm thinking about trying it this spring. Something about growing tomatos from a McDonald's burger just seems ironic.

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Is there a client that supports nsec bunkers and that lets you create a NIP-72 community on more than one relay? #asknostr

Also just won a game of quake. Webdx is cool. View quoted note →

Made it to the top 10 on the Ditto Dino game

Well looks like Debian might have cooked my tablet. Upgraded from Bookworm to Trixie (yes, I know I'm late to the party on that) and something just broke itself. And, instead of going to bed early like I should be (my alarm is going off at 4:45 AM) I'm seeing if I can get it working. Well, I guess if nothing else I had a good run. I think this is the first time a Debian installation imploded post installation for a reason that was not (at least probably not?) my fault. #Debian #linux

Well, I might have just had a 'productive' all night gaming session followed by sleeping into 4PM. Got called to do a set of 9PM-9AM shifts, because of some rather high winds, at the local power company I recently started working at. Wish me luck.

Made a revised version of my older social media protocol comparison post

A Technical Comparison of Distributed Social Media Protocols v3

Update 3/14/2026: I’ve updated the post to reflect that porting Nomadic Identities to Activity Pub is still ongoing. Shoutout to silverpill@m...

And a meme to go along with it: I'll also share as a NIP-23 Nostr post in a few moments. #blog #blogstr #nostr #activitypub #bluesky #meme

System76 Blog

System76 on Age Verification Laws

Liberty has costs, but it

#Linux #ageverification

Two photos of the lunar eclipse this morning. Both are unedited, one from my personal phone (Pixel 8a) one from my work phone (iPhone 17). Taken through a family member's telescope, but used digital zoom on the pixel. #photography #eclipse

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@npub10qdp...arpj @Alex Gleason @npub1jvnp...89sc @npub18ams...p424 Hey, random thought, if it was a useful idea figured you all would be the people to make use of it. Has there been any consideration of using Nostr for age verification? A user verifies their age in a semi private way (say, a small credit card transaction) -> provider creates an event or badge of some kind and applies it to their profile -> the user of the profile can be assumed to be of age without needing to provide proof to relays or other services. It wouldn't exactly be anonymous, but it'd probably be about as pseudonymous as you could get for an age verification (the npub with an age attested isn't publicly tied to any details that were used to verify it). I know age verification isn't really in line with cypherpunk ideals, but a lot of jurisdictions are moving to require it. At some point soon everything from a Nostr relay to a GitLab server could require age verification, and as much as ignoring it now might an option, it might be good to get ahead of things and get the infrastructure for that sort of stuff in place. A verified npub or gpg key might be the least evil of all the options, and could probably be useful to verify an account for just about any small project or service (Nostr & beyond) without requiring the people verifying to pay for some external age verification service, and without requiring the people being verified to hand over their personal details to ever service.