I said ages ago that encrypted payloads should cost money and public data (exploitable by relays) should be free.
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chronic early adopter of decentralized tech :)
Tlon (urbit) released an update to their app that makes it 90% focus on talking to your agent. Urbit is now completely irrelevant.
They never even fully leaned into the human social aspect. That’s the sad part. I would rather have used it as a private and safe social network for close friends and family, but they never let you post anything.
I try not to judge too harshly. For all we know, some of the Tlon leadership got sick or something. But I gave advice around this and friendly chastisement several times. Whatever.
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I hate choosing usernames. Just give me some randomly assigned thing like this. New Phone Number.
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Does XMPP have a mascot? Does SMTP have a mascot?
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If robosats were implemented from scratch today, wouldn’t it use nostr for accounts, coordination, and discovery?
I feel bad for indie brands that have spun up their entire website with AI. If a customer hates AI copy, well, it’s everywhere and they’re never gonna be able to replace it all now.
Zapping is an admission of defeat for a cryptocurrency.
“There is nothing else I can spend this on” i.e. “let’s just use it like monopoly money”
Monero shows the real value of bitcoin. If it’s not used in Monero, then the usage on Bitcoin is pure theater and virtue signaling (which is exactly what zaps are)
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Nostr is the REBOL / Red-lang of decentralized networks.
They both prefer a bunch of built-in types (“kinds”). Interesting philosophical choice.
Where most languages have:
"bob@example.com"
"https://example.com/foo"
"2026-09-14"
"$25.00"
"192.168.1.1"
"foo.txt"
Red-lang and REBOL have:
bob@example.com ; email!
; url!
14-Sep-2026 ; date!
$25.00 ; money!
192.168.1.1 ; tuple!
%foo.txt ; file!
Example Domain
Guy that has so many vibe coded apps that he can’t even keep track of them all and also expects you to care
It’s so funny how the UFO/UAP disclosure industry has their own lingo and shibboleths.
If I hear “there’s enough *there* there…” one more time
Enter Nostr.Land Nirvana
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Has anyone tried Futo Keyboard? I want to try this swipe layout… 
KASROZ: An Optimal Keyboard for Swipe
Why not QWERTY? QWERTY was designed in the 1800s for two-handed mechanical typewriters. As a layout, the key optimization places common bigrams on ...
Discourse forums are low key underrated. I’m in several and they’re all quite nice. I don’t even particularly mind that I have to make a new account for each one (good opsec I guess). It’s actually kind of great to have an identity thst only exists within the context of a random community.
What’s the best forum software today though? Is there something better than Discourse? Lighter weight? Better account model? Etc
Train lines are actually being built in LA. Good for them. D line train opened up and is expanding right now. LAX is connecting directly to K line this fall. Looks like the 2028 Olympics might not be a disaster after all.
Still very sad compared to where they were in Who Framed Roger Rabbit times…
Tried the Kagi News app. Honestly pretty slick. But then I remembered that idgaf about “the news”
Avalon was a western island where King Arthur was shipped off to when he died? So it was like the undying lands where elves went? I thought Avalon was just another name for the British isles. Avalon could be a memory of Atlantis perhaps
Finally got a VPN again. Feels good to pay for another thing with Monero
People with children stay young because they are surrounded by childish (innocent, joyful) things all day. It keeps their mind young.
People without children are surrounded by adult things that are heavy, dramatic, and dark. Makes your mind old and thus ages you.