Too much soyfacing over LLMs, I'm just going to start unfollowing people who gush over slop

Correct answer: because The Metrics told them it's ok View quoted note →

why do people think it's ok to emotionally manipulate users on email unsubscription pages?

Another subtle thing I just noticed as we continue to normalize LLMs for coding: I'm now catching myself making excuses for someone else because maybe the mistake they made was because the LLM made the mistake and they didn't read the docs themselves. Because I do that too. yikes

Help a nostrich out View quoted note →

I'm listening to Andreas Antonopoulos on Rogan from 2016, and it's like listening to something from the future: bitcoin backed debit cards, openbazaar's decentralized marketplace, plug and play VR. Even the ads are better - the tracking tiles were advertised as having crash detection so you could know whether a loved one was in a car accident. Meanwhile, in the "future", we have buy now pay later, Temu, and lagging bitcoin adoption. What happened?

Just published a new NIP with yet another approach to push notifications:

GitHub

Add NIP 9a for push notifications by staab · Pull Request #2194 · nostr-protocol/nips

Read here

This is modeled somewhat after MIP 05 by @JeffG , but simpler and less coupled to the marmot use case.

This is pretty clever:

Extropic

Extropic | Home

Building thermodynamic computing hardware that is radically more energy efficient than GPUs.

Flotilla 1.6.3 is out — this is a bugfix and quality of life release, which is good because it turns out there were a lot of bugs. Changelog: * Fix scroll down button z index * Hide tooltips on mobile * Sort comments ascending * Make video embeds rounded * Fix ProfileMultiSelect styling * Accept hex pubkeys/npubs/nprofiles in ProfileMultiSelect * Tweak room edit form design * Report pending signer to user * Update default relays * Fix chat list responsiveness * Fix memory leak, notification badge not showing * Improve space join flow * Fix opening images in fullscreen dialog * Add support for blocked relays * Add login with key if no signer is detected * Publish default relay selections on signup And especially for @hzrd149 I added AUTH policy settings, which allow you to avoid authenticating with the entirety of the nostr network. Available now on web and Zapstore, in the pipeline for Android and iOS.