having paid a minuscule one-time admission fee for posting access to a relay isn't exactly the same thing as saying you're not a bot.

i found this thing, which should at least let me pipe the output of an individual relay to /dev/stdout to check what's on there...

GitHub

GitHub - blakejakopovic/nostcat: Websocket client for nostr relay scripting

Websocket client for nostr relay scripting. Contribute to blakejakopovic/nostcat development by creating an account on GitHub.

did anybody implement a Nostr relay that applies Bayesian anti-spam filtering to posts?

i wish clients would let you check which relays a post came from. i'm trying to assess relays here and it's difficult when you can't even see that information. there is also a NIP that recommends a relay along with a post and i'd like to see that information also. i need to look at some dev tools i guess. there must be a "debugger" type tool out there that lets you view all the data coming from the relays.

man, i'm hearing more noise from the upstairs neighbours than i used to when i first moved in here. they have a washing machine and right now some woman is coughing like she's got pneumonia and needs an antibiotic. since it's been so quiet up to this point, i assume the place must've been empty until now and that someone moved in there recently. the floors are much thinner than i thought they were. i can hear them so clearly.

don't know what's going on with the filter on the Universe timeline in Damus. each time i toggle a relay there, it reverts back and i have to do this 5 times over before it finally sticks. is something else constantly updating that list?

the way iris.to filters out bot spam by hiding users unless they're in your network and have 5 or more followers is effective, but also effective at hiding new users who aren't networked with anyone yet. it works as long as other clients don't do the same, but if every client did like iris.to, no new users would ever get any followers. so it's a "selfish" kind of filter that way.

valuing the contributions of developers more than the contributions of users is a mistake, i think. i ran a web community once where i made the grave mistake of assuming that i was the leader of the community and could change anything i wanted. as it turns out, no, you can't do that, because users can walk out on you, and without users, software is worthless.

one thing that surprised me to learn about casinos: it's absolutely fine to let people win back 99% of their money on average, because if that is indeed the average across all customers, that still leaves the casino with 1% on average. games can be chosen or designed so the odds are always *slightly* in favour of the casino over time, even with the occasional customer winning a big jackpot. if you were setting up a new casino with no prior experience, you'd need to tweak the games a bit to get the balance right, depending on the behaviour patterns of your clientele, but that's just a matter fine tuning and monitoring the accounting sheets for feedback to make sure you're at a sufficient profit margin.

*sees a laughing Buddha in his feed* if he's fat, he's not the Buddha. that's the Chinese Zen monk Buddai. different guy.

i joined yesterday and i have 23 followers already and i never asked anyone to follow me. i'm just doing what worked for me on Mastodon: just start posting, liking, sharing, etc, so people can see that you're there. maybe try to say something that is of interest to other people while you're at it.

people who are here because of crypto: so, hey, uhm, go Bitcoin! zap zap zap! people who are here because it's a social network: this is what i'm thinking

having worked in the computer business for over 15 years, one of the funny things about the crypto world is how people will use words like "keys" and "hashing" having no idea how those things actually work. it reminds me a bit of how gamers call video cards "GPUs" and accept that Discord workspaces are called "servers" despite them not being that at all.

*starts magazine named Business Outsider* we have no idea what's going on in the halls of power

if you know anything about actually running a business, such as how accounting works, i'm interested in following you

cold coffe just isn't a pleasant experience 🤢

kind of relieved that Nostr *isn't* blockchain, just decentralised.

the onboarding experience for Nostr is pretty shit. once you're over it, stuff starts getting better, but yeah, it's pretty shit.

there's this Nostr bot that goes "if you all zap me X sats within the next hour, one of you will get 80% of everything, another will get 15% and a third will get 4%" (guess who gets to keep the remaining 1%) that's called a lottery, sir, and the house always wins.

if you find yourself in the middle of a gold rush, selling the mining equipment is a pretty safe bet.