This gossip layout allows the left-menu to be thinner by putting wide things into a new bottom bar.

Bad SATA cables suck

Gnome has terrible default behaviors, and most things you cannot fix without a Gnome Shell Extension. But all the best Gnome Shell Extensions are unmaintained and no longer work on the current releases of gnome because the Gnome Shell breaks every few months and developers get tired of constantly updating their extensions just to maintain existing behavior and eventually give up. I don't know of any other window manager that provides a good Wayland compositor and doesn't require me to learn a bunch of keyboard shortcuts and tiling mantras... except maybe KDE. But KDE is broken in it's own way. KDE reimplements everything itself. There are a bunch of KDE-only applications that suck. That's not horrible as I can just ignore them, but there was some other reason I started hating KDE that I forgot. Please remind me.

DVMs are a great idea, but have some problems in practice. * DVMs don't advertise where you can contact them (which relays). * DVMs that produce the popular 5300/6300 feeds don't tell you where to find the events they recommend, they just give "e" tags without recommended relays or any other relay indications. At least this is true for the most popular DVMs ("Current Popular Notes DVM", "Top Zapped Notes"). * DVM discovery isn't quite right. NIP-89 is about clients that handle events, not DVMs that handle events remotely (as@hodlbod recognized). Are clients discovering DVMs by listening to recommendations from their followers? Are people making such recommendations to their followers? Or are clients hardcoding stuff? Or are they just load 31990 events from some popular DVM-centric relays and "trusting" them? I don't know, but I'm not convinced that we have solved the DVM discovery problem correctly. For gossip to plug into the DVM ecosystem I have to compromise my values and work towards centralizing nostr upon some well-known relays where DVM activity happens, with hardcoded URLs and maybe even hardcoded DVMs. I don't intend to do that. Instead I'll work with hodlbod on PR 1728 in the NIPs repo, while I work on the implementation on a development branch that probably won't merge for some time.

"The things immutability buys us are largely invisible, but are way more important than what edit gets us." View quoted note → I should note that hacker news does (did?) something like allowing edits up until the time that somebody replies.

There was a bird flying South for the winter who got lost from the flock, and a big storm rolled in and he got chilled and fell down to the ground and landed in a pasture, half-frozen and stiff, unable to fly. He was having a bad day. Not too much long after, a cow wonders past and shits on him. But the shit is warm, and the bird starts thawing out and feeling better. So he pokes his head up out of the cow pattie and starts to sing. The farm cat hears the bird singing, goes to it, and eats it. There are three morals to this story: 1. Not everybody who shits on you is your enemy 2. Not everybody who digs you out of a pile of shit is your friend 3. If you are warm and comfortable, keep your mouth shut