Ever heard of lists you can just tack onto your Nostr profile? View quoted note →

Those who came to the internet late shouldn't have any say in shaping or developing it. Yeah, I mean you, governments and politicians.

A lot of bug fixes this time. Stability update. For the next version I'm working on a big new feature that many of you will find useful. View quoted note →

Pro tip: No matter what web app you're building, always test it with Brave and the Brave Shields activated.

I don't really get NoorNode payments. I opened it today and saw I still owed 1105 Sats for the Premium Tier. Alright, I sent it over. Then it somehow switched me to the Standard Tier, and suddenly I've got over 11,000 Sats in credit. Now when I try to switch back to Premium, it presents me a new Lightning invoice. What's going on? @npub1h8lh...dp5p @ابو مريم

You want Nostr lists? Here, have some lists. View quoted note →

It doesn't matter how technically advanced your security and protection systems are; they're gonna hit you with social engineering. And loneliness is a nasty weak spot. People will do just about anything to dodge pain. And that brings me to the next thing: Neuralink, or those neural brain-to-machine links that some big tech lords are working on right now. It's not really about making it easier to use computers; it's all about digging into people's desires. Take a simple example: The test subject plays some adventure game, like a role-playing one. During the game, he runs into 10 different kinds of AI-generated women. Blondes, brunettes, short ones, tall ones, with all sorts of body types and skin tones... they're testing the whole range. Then those electrodes on your head measure which type triggers the strongest biochemical reactions. And in round two, they tweak that type even more, try out extra variations, until bam, they know exactly what turns you on. That doesn't just open the floodgates to the most killer personalized ads, but also to scams. Or hey, aren't those basically the same thing anyway? Some tech just pulls in scams like a magnet when the folks at the controls don't have any fear of God. View quoted note →

Even this ecosystem isn't totally safe from getting corrupted by money to some extent. I don't wanna start pointing fingers at specific cases where my gut instinct went off (I have zero interest in diving into that kind of drama right now) but Nostr and its creators aren't exactly innocent little lambs either. It reminds me of that question someone asked a wise guy: "Why doesn't God just make everybody rich if He owns everything and He's so generous?" And his answer was: „He has made 1% of people rich, and look how messed up the world already is because of it. Do you really want things to get even worse?"

I've got to admit, it feels a little weird using my own Nostr client and key signer every day. There's always this tension between wondering 'did I get everything right?' for every feature I use and that I know about, and that satisfying feeling like 'cool, the client handles this pretty well too‘. With other clients, it's not like that. You kind of just blindly trust that everything's all good, even though you've seen some obvious bugs here and there. What a weird feeling. Feelings are weird.

Always watch out for which key signer you're using. Not all of them are equally secure. View quoted note →

Controversial opinion: People have always organized themselves into clans. Like big extended families or groups of those families and neighborhoods. That has always been our natural way of setting up society. It's been like that for thousands of years. This modern hyper-individualism is unnatural and it has just made us all lonelier. Lonelier, poorer, powerless, dependent on government welfare and institutional help. We've traded away our security and power, in the form of sovereignty, for our egos that are so vulnerable to temporary trends. What a crappy deal. View quoted note →

You know what I also love about Nostr? There are all these different bubbles here, like various friend circles or groups. If you sketch them out schematically, they're basically these clusters of users who interact a ton with each other. If you really keep an eye out, you'll notice that every now and then, two big bubbles merge together. You can totally see it happening. A pack leader from one bubble connects with the pack leader from another, and all of a sudden, new followers from Bubble A start following folks from Bubble B, and the other way around. I always find that kinda stuff fascinating. It's like in ancient Arabia, two tribes teaming up because two people from different ones got married. 😄