Looks like nostr becomes gooner-friendly, hopefully in a responsible way. View quoted note →

Ah, this sweet relief. Looks like with these kind of absurd rules (censorship, practically), there's no way, from a new #blackhatworld forum account, to highlight any potential scammer there. Their community is trapped, and it's good to know that now. Don't waste time creating accounts on centralized platforms—it's a resource-consuming trap. It gives nothing in return in this particular case. If you have a reasonable concern about a market item posted on their forum or anywhere else, better use something like

GitHub

GitHub - briskness-byte/NostrComments: The comment section no website can close. A thread on every page, kept on Nostr relays. Browser extension for Firefox and Chrome. No account, no server, no tracking.

The comment section no website can close. A thread on every page, kept on Nostr relays. Browser extension for Firefox and Chrome. No account, no se...

Yes, it kinda sucks that it's basically complaining into the decentralized void, rather than having a dialogue with the potential scammer directly (who knows, maybe they could still demonstrate that they provide a legitimate service?—I still don't know that), but at least your message would be possible to find by whoever is doing the research 🕵️‍♂️ View quoted note →

Another day of observing how exactly centralized platforms keep being repressive for stupid reasons. I gave a flavor to #blackhatworld dot com, created a profile there. Just to post some uncomfortable questions in a thread opened by a potential scammer. After attempting to post, I saw some "go to the newbie page and write about yourself first" kinda thing. I wrote. After a while they approved the account, and finally... They removed my posts and gave me a warning for violating their rules: that quoting a URL written by the potential scammer (the thread opener) is not allowed 🤦‍♂️ Wonderful. Next, of course, CAPTCHA in their support ticket system. Legacy centralized platforms are terminally sick. Sometimes together with their admins. God save Nostr. From hard dependency on centralized systems like Google in particular.

VPS hosting providers are so desperately backwards nowadays. The one I've been using for my relay, my videos, and some private self-hosted stuff has half-dead SSDs and an incompetent support team. It's expiring today, and I've been too slow to choose anything as a replacement. Adequate hosting became an unoccupied business niche today, probably mostly because of overregulations. The no bullshit VPS of my dream is basically: - honest 1 Gbps outgoing speed - no KYC ever - XMR/lightning payments - DMCA-ignorance - no abuse hysteria based on Spamhaus/Uceprotect/SpamCop/etc. false positives; actual abuse cases are verified manually based on metrics - competent support team that actually timely responds and fixes their hardware/network issues rather than giving endless excuses And most importantly: actual fraud-free. By actual fraud-free I mean it never ever holds your money as hostage, it always automatically refunds rather than just automatically terminates your VPS, in case if client is unable or not wanting to respond to another bogus abuse letter bullshit. Are you possibly aware of one in 2026? I would pay a bit more than normal prices if such hosting existed. #asknostr #VPS #hosting

The key is not the good taste. #marketing #nostr View quoted note →

View quoted note → Jeez, why am I hearing the voices of both Yuri Bezmenov and Bryan Lunduke in the background while noticing the redditors' stuff? Like they are debating. Don't be fooled, nostriches. Whatever tech stack you choose or FOSS project you decide to use/contribute to doesn't automatically mean you join to support the particular project leader's political agenda. Same with writing in a particular programming language—it's not identical to supporting or hating a particular minority. Or using satellites for internet access is not agreeing with Elon on something. Even paying taxes is not identical to agreeing with your government. Such black-and-white thinking is a sign of immaturity. We can't avoid all interdependencies with everyone we disagree with. We'd be something different from a society otherwise: some much more dysfunctional scattered pieces, not interacting with each other at all. Be your own leader; express your independent positions on things. And don't overdo conflicts: productive conflicts help us to discover more truths, not to separate us even more. Especially when the other side is under too heavy pressure already, better focus more on what possibly unites us rather than separates. #politics

Who's controlling @Alert? #asknostr View quoted note →

View quoted note → Which still doesn't make #Rust saint just in case; Rust didn't acknowledge a more general issue than the null pointer dereference: the `[]` collection operator should have returned an Option type, without possible panic. I see this operator in generated code too often. Whatever the simplest, shortest thing to write should produce the healthiest default behavior in new programming languages. This relatively low-level taste is still applicable to agentic AI-assisted development (not the blind vibe coding but where a human is in an already skill-tightened loop, reviewing each code change). #devstr