Every nostr client should automatically react with the 👀 emoji on notes you've seen in the feed. I'm joking.

> Societal theorists are tempted into the belief that they know the story of a civilization. They can script its final scene of triumph or defeat. It is by way of such end-of-history thinking that the discovered laws of behavior to which persons conform become the scripted laws of behavior to which they must conform. - _Finite and Infinite Games_. James P. Carse

@NAAN I'm getting "zip END header not found" on all of your archives. What format are you using? is it .wacz ?

Routstr merged this, which is cool for US users for now. ..until minibits gets sanctioned, too :laugh_lg: or goes down. There's a kind of whack-a-mole (or dodge-the-hammer) that "UX-improving defaults" will forever be cursed with. Maybe I'm an anti-defaults zealot and I don't know it yet. Gonna think about that one... All software does nothing out of the box. requires multiple first touches. "Bad" for UX, but excellent for personal virtue-building and community hygiene. View quoted note →

But also BEWARE! @routstr 's 'routstrd' cli uses the mint at

Mint Cuba Bitcoin

**by default**. There is a really, really, really good chance that if you attempt to use a custodial wallet in the USA to pay an invoice the CLI presents to you, _you will fucking get in trouble_ with your custodian. Cuba is sanctioned by the US. Here is a PR to change the default mint. And a suggestion to add a loud warning to the setup:

GitHub

Change the default mint to Minibits; keep cubabitcoin in trusted by vcavallo · Pull Request #113 · Routstr/routstrd

The https://mint.cubabitcoin.org mint that ships as the default in routstrd is a sanctioned entity in the US. A user who simply installs routstrd, ...

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110 sats is how much it cost to get

GitHub

GitHub - vcavallo/ReadToRelay: A browser extension for posting web reader-mode markdown content to nostr as long-form notes

A browser extension for posting web reader-mode markdown content to nostr as long-form notes - vcavallo/ReadToRelay

ReadToRelay compatible with Firefox (was Chrome only) with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash.

This got resolved. Lesson: IF you're going to use a compliant custodial wallet for some things, be careful which cashu mints you're sending to. Especially ones that might be in Cuba. Fucking State bullshit. bank bullshit. bullshit bullshit. My own fault this time. Most bullshit is avoidable. View quoted note →