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by sanskritical 9d ago
Nostr is like a decentralized message queue/key-value store with cryptographic identities. It has been funded by Jack Dorsey. Its most common usages are a decentralized Twitter clone, a tailscale clone without any registration needed c
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by sanskritical 10d ago
> Now we need an alternative that works well and is de-centralized from the get go. It's called Nostr. I post on it every day.
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by sanskritical 2mo ago
nntp was built on horribly naive assumptions that do not carry to the present day internet. nostr is a better option.
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by sanskritical 2mo ago
there's decentralized git on Nostr: https://nostrapps.github.io/nostrgit/ Your public key is your sovereign ownership of your project, and with Nostr is no longer bound to any single entity.
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by sanskritical 3mo ago
> same performances in the same form factor with the same OS (but more upgradability) for less This also remains true for Apple! I don't care about performance. At all. I write text in a terminal! I only care about the hardware work
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by sanskritical 3mo ago
I want a simple UNIX workstation that "just works". Apple broke this promise to me with Tahoe, where horrific design decisions compounded the bugs on essential peripherals (Tahoe began spinning up and down my external raid array t
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by sanskritical 4mo ago
Nostr is like a decentralized message queue/database with cryptographic identities. It has been funded by Jack Dorsey. Its most common usages are a decentralized Twitter clone, a tailscale clone without any registration needed called N
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by sanskritical 4mo ago
People should consider decentralized git over Nostr, rather than switching to a replacement like Codeberg or Gitlab and waiting for the resulting enshittification after it attracts everyone else. https://nostrapps.github.io/
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by sanskritical 4mo ago
no recaptcha / works on tor, unlike archive.is: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.newyorker.com/news/le...
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by sanskritical 5mo ago
I don't know. I think people would notice if Google were being MITM'd on Tor.
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by sanskritical 5mo ago
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/when-... Works for me. I use only Tor so it is actually far more accessible. Archive.is uses Google's Recaptcha, which for some reason rejects
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by sanskritical 5mo ago
Presumably these are lightning invoices, which can resolve in milliseconds.
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by sanskritical 6mo ago
How long until agents begin routinely abusing local privilege escalation bugs to break out of containers? I bet if you tell them explicitly not to do so it increases the likelihood that they do.
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by sanskritical 7mo ago
Someone already mentioned the hoarderware issue, which is big for me, so I'll give my other concern. Years ago on Twitter I believe it was lcamtuf that asked "Would you pipe a text file into less?" and Dan Kaminsky (RIP) repl
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by sanskritical 7mo ago
If you want an example of an actually lightweight modern desktop editor to take inspiration from, try zed.dev Zed is written in Rust, insanely fast, consumes virtually no resources, has an Emacs input mode (which I use exclusively) and desp
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
I think people who will leave as soon as they feel their work environment has become even remotely uncomfortable are likely sitting in a comfortable sinecure, and it isn't the role of the taxpayer to provide sinecures for people with d
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
In my experience legitimately talented people are staying, and the guy whose impressive education credentials seem to train him mostly how to write very wordy excuses for his shortage of actual work product is going back home. Maybe you hav
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
Open source software, by the admission of this article, is a critical input to AI agents useful for code generation. So the way I see it is that there is now an entire industry that is incentivized to financially support open source softwar
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
They did not. And many apps (Ricochet Messenger comes to mind) were not visited by a web browser. So it isn't like you could announce an HTTP 302 and just seamlessly transition.
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
I think relay discovery by clients has improved by leaps and bounds and will continue to do so. Previously you had to give some complicated "follow me at such and such relay" thing. These days you can just tell people your npub an
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
I am unaware of an app that sees present day use for communicating short messages that uses BEP-44 or mainline DHT. Nostr works today for millions of people. These services have normal people using them, not Hacker News commentators that ar
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
The defining feature of fascism is these kind of tyrannical public-private partnerships. It was the entire basis of Mussolini's fascism. They are the literal fascists. Redifining fascism as meaning "racism and anti-semitism"
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
You announce all the relays you publish to to the relays you are publishing to. If someone quotes your post in a post of their own, in many clients subsequent readers will be able to retrieve your content from the relays which they don&#x27
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
Tor and I2P are great technologies. ZLibrary, for example, runs an excellent Tor hidden service and it is usually the most reliable way to access news from the site. However, this did not remain true for a while when two of the operators we
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
Many clients automatically seek, or prompt an action in 1 click to retrieve content from additional relays that a Nostr pubkey announces if said content is referenced but not available on already subscribed relays. As a publisher, you annou
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
This is a discussion on whether or not it is better to use it to announce new domain names post-suspension than Wikipedia, not if it can sustain petabytes of data.
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
> This reads like a smear campaign against Nostr. It's well known that corporations and governments pay people fulltime to edit Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a whole article detailing the extent of it: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by sanskritical 8mo ago
I recommend Anna's Archive get a Nostr account. Once they finally have a solid court order to seize domains, generally the rate at which they get seized accelerates greatly. Nostr is the only decentralized manner (no, Mastodon/fed
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by sanskritical 9mo ago
Bitcoin has the benefit of being the first way in human history of being able to transfer value between two countries in a way that a corrupt bureaucrat, judge, or customs official can't freeze, reverse, or steal it. That's the be
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by sanskritical 9mo ago
> and claiming his purpose in media is specific to an agenda. This is literally every single media outlet's owners, so he's at least more honest than the rest of them.

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