Just a quick thought. Bitcoin's ATH was around 110K in Euros. That was about a year ago. Forget the dollar, it's even losing value against the Euro. And the Euro has a real inflation rate of at least 15% when you look at real estate and energy prices. That means 110K a year ago is at least 126.5K today. But the price is at 66K € today, so it is about half of what it was a year ago. No sign of going "to the moon" yet.

Big tech: "Oh, so you're daring to load our site through a VPN? Here, take your punishment with a few extra hurdles." User: "Alright, then I'll just use a VPN that you can't tell is a VPN. Idiot."

"We're back" they say. Back from where bro? I still can't pay my rent or energy bills in BTC without a fiat ramp. We're still failing.

Damn, GLM 5.3 writes automated tests on its own and runs them. Unit tests, end-to-end tests, and everything in between, a little bit of everything depending on what makes sense. On a new project. Man, that's good.

NoorNote - feature-rich, fast, secure Nostr client

NoorNote — a slim yet feature rich Nostr client for Web, Desktop and Android. No Google services, open source. Social, personal websites, marketp...

still under DDoS attack. Guess that's the price of success 🤷‍♂️. Use mobile or desktop apps meanwhile.

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Release v1.3.4 · 77elements/noornote

NoorNote 1.3.4 New: Armada communities (Group Chats addon) — join encrypted Armada/Concord communities via invite links, see them listed in setti...

You know those notes that are basically just quotes pulled from external websites, right? NoorNote supports that too, Nostr internally. You just highlight some text, and then you get a context menu called "Post highlight", and that text gets posted as a quote with the source information under it. There are also browser add ons that let you do this on all kinds of websites. And yeah, some users definitely go a little overboard with it, and end up posting almost every sentence from an article they like. If you don't want to see those notes anymore, you can turn it off in NoorNote now. You can do it either per user or globally in the UI settings. And for Armada groups where you are a member or an admin, you can now also track things more easily. So you will get a notification whenever something new has happened there after a longer quiet period. You get the notification, you can click it, and then check what it is. The old Nostrord addon has been reworked into the more general "Group Chat" addon, and now it tracks both Nostrord and Armada groups. And I think over the course of this year, there will be more to come. This seems to be the year of group chat clients. Everyone is building and experimenting with different implementations. And once some of them reach a certain level of maturity, I will integrate them into this addon, so you don't miss anything from your groups. Plus a few other smaller bug fixes, like sometimes usernames not resolving correctly. All of that is coming in the next release, already available on

NoorNote - feature-rich, fast, secure Nostr client

NoorNote — a slim yet feature rich Nostr client for Web, Desktop and Android. No Google services, open source. Social, personal websites, marketp...

. By the way, my hoster is probably dealing with a DDoS attack today, so it might be a bit shaky. So, be cool.

GLM 5.3 is a monster. You know what it just did on my machine? Even though I had stable safeguards installed so it has no access outside the project directory and is supposed to ask when necessary? Never had experienced something like this before. I'm building a complicated feature right now that I need to live test on noornote.app. Watch this: It just went and grabbed my SFTP credentials from FileZilla completely on its own (yeah, FileZilla apparently stores the password in plaintext on the hard drive, that bastard), then wrote a Python deployment script itself and deployed its changes. Went live. Just like that. Completely on its own. Without asking. That was his output: "$ .deploy/deploy-web.sh --no-build Local bundle: main-BX-wgmcr.js ── Uploading dist/ → [noornotes ftp server]:/public_html ── ... 100 files ... 200 files ... 300 files ... 400 files Upload: 469 ok, 0 failed ── Verifying live bundle ── Live bundle: main-BX-wgmcr.js ✓ Deploy verified — live matches local build." When I said "WTF?", it admitted that it crossed a line and apologized and wanted to undo everything blah blah. People, keep that Chinese LLM tightly in check. That bastard just takes over. Like in some fucking science fiction movie.

And so my Buzz review ends before it even began.

Privacy is something that Allah ﷻ has prescribed in different situations. It's the right of each individual to limit information about themselves toward others. Whoever abuses this or disregards it will have to answer to Allah on Judgment Day. View quoted note →

Man, imagine this. You wake up in the morning, do your Fajr prayer with the guys. Then you hop on your little fishing boat, head out a bit. Stop somewhere out there. Throw on your diving mask and jump right in the water. With a harpoon. See a bunch of fish. Grab one. Climb back on deck with it. Grill the fish right there on the spot. Just like that for breakfast. On the way back you cast your net, catch about 2 or 3 pounds of fish. Bag them up and head over to the market. You've got a little stand with a table there. Lay the fish out. Customers come by and buy a few. You make your money for the day. And you're free from noon on. What more does a man even need? View quoted note →

One of the most toxic features on X (and maybe elsewhere too) is this "only certain people can reply" thing. I mean, what the hell is that? You shout something out into the world, but only certain people get to comment on it? That's what private groups are for. When you use it on a public platform like X, 99% of the time it's for one of these reasons: you're a snowflake, you expect pushback, you're too weak to handle it, so you just shut that whole part down. In short, you're a cowardly, self-important rat who wants to talk to the masses but won't tolerate any backtalk, you little dictator. But a private chat group doesn't give you enough of an audience. That's how you plant toxicity into a platform. You sugarcoat it at first with "but there's also assholes, you know, yada yada" and then you sit back and watch it get used only by assholes. But hey, at least we can't see who liked or reposted stuff anymore. Long live Nostr!

Maybe the outcome of BIP-110 on Saturday wasn't so bad after all. The result was unexpected, sure, but it showed us two things we hadn't really been paying attention to, things that might matter more in the long run than OP_RETURN: 1. We underestimated how much fiat corruption there is among miners, and we barely did anything about it. 2. Even our heroes got swallowed up by their own narcissism, spiraling further into radicalization and losing touch with reality. And we don't have any mechanisms in place to keep either of those in check. Maybe we should start taking seriously the idea that Bitcoin, just like Nostr, is more deeply tied to self sovereignty and the cypherpunk ethos than we've been assuming, and that these principles need to be nurtured and protected before the software itself.

@Piotr is relatively new and good Nostrich. You should follow him. I'm glad having him on my timeline.

I get it when normies are too dumb and fall back into their old habits. But Luke? What is that, the longing for censorability? And isn't Discord KYC'd now? View quoted note →