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We spun blogs and magazines off into indexes+longform 30023 in #DecentNewsroom. #Alexandria is indexes+asciidoc(sections 30041 or wikis 30818).
We ported in Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, and Open Library to Alex relays and people are adding their own publications.

2026-08-14 15:53:12 GMT

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👏

2026-08-14 11:44:42 GMT

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I might be able to go if I am still unemployed. Can't fix a date yet.

2026-08-14 11:35:23 GMT

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It depends on which relays I am using. I've muted some, that came through when I include primal for replies.

2026-08-13 20:03:22 GMT

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Ironisch, weil ich auf deutsche Kerle stehe, gerade weil sie so Sekundärtugenden haben, mit denen man ein KZ leiten kann. 🤣
☯

2026-08-13 19:51:28 GMT

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What is with that profile pic? 🤣

2026-08-13 19:48:42 GMT

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I only use Bitcoin on-chain for anything over a couple hundred USD worth.

2026-08-13 19:34:16 GMT

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No, my relays are pretty good.

2026-08-13 19:32:54 GMT

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I dunno. I'm really conservative about money. We'll see.

2026-08-13 19:30:59 GMT

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I like my Phoenix wallet, tho, fr. Phoenix is the closest experience to Monero, IMO.

2026-08-13 19:19:26 GMT

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You should!

2026-08-13 12:56:11 GMT

Monero :monero: doesn't make Bitcoin :bitcoin: obsolete, but it's making me lose interest in Lightning ⚡.
I do like my Phoenix wallet, tho. Self-custody for the lazy...

2026-08-13 11:20:04 GMT

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Would it be possible for you to publish a list of the fastest-responding and most-cooperative projects? As a positive-signal.

2026-08-13 11:02:41 GMT

The current state of interaction on the Internet, now:
#nevent1q…dgqx
https://i.nostr.build/2X1T1mzTR3zPZal5Gdl2ei.gif

2026-08-13 10:48:11 GMT

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You're using Primal, right?

2026-08-13 10:00:07 GMT

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Ah, you're reading from wss://nostr.mom.

2026-08-13 09:57:50 GMT

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What spam?

2026-08-13 07:51:19 GMT

#gold 🪙
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2026-08-13 06:53:29 GMT

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They seemed to have switched Fable 5 out for Grok 4.6, on Cursor, since Elon bought it. I don't notice it being worse.
I'm usually on _Auto_ mode, tho.

2026-08-13 06:25:39 GMT

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2026-08-13 06:15:52 GMT

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It's bizarre to me, to think that someone would offer to pay someone else, to pick up less than $25 worth of food.

2026-08-12 21:31:45 GMT

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I rebroadcasted it for ya.

2026-08-12 18:51:22 GMT

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I care. I use it, regularly.

2026-08-12 18:36:38 GMT

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Nobody. Someone just thinks its weird that everyone is nice to him.😂

2026-08-12 18:32:40 GMT

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https://laeserin.blossom.band/6cc4ca05c8ddce02ca570bc14ab3f2f0f01f21fea4090390022433b1e6b3338c.gif

2026-08-12 18:01:31 GMT

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maybe another 25, here, but the light is already a bit odd

2026-08-12 17:43:43 GMT

Wenn sun?

2026-08-12 15:38:45 GMT

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Thanks.

2026-08-12 06:56:42 GMT

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I actually meant that German workers were a _higher_ class of people, not a lower one. They were considered the nation's providers and were so productive that their income generated enough to sustain a thriving country.

2026-08-12 06:41:04 GMT

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The relay itself is rented as premium (with things like NIP05 addresses and streams), so at the moment Premium users are helping me pay for those features. But Alexandria is getting some premium features as well, and those will only be available for premium subscribers.
You're right, I need to add that information to the UI.

2026-08-12 06:37:37 GMT

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Thanks, I am always grateful for some XMR. 💝

2026-08-11 21:01:57 GMT

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Well, I think wine and land send messages when you fail to auth, and clients can surface that (my web app does), but TheForest has no auth.

2026-08-11 20:58:02 GMT

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Reminds that I haven't checked in a few weeks... 😬

2026-08-11 20:41:44 GMT

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Have you considered PMs @npub10np…tl5h . They are hardly ever used, but really good for this sort of thing and surprisingly widespread.

2026-08-11 20:39:08 GMT

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Same.

2026-08-11 20:34:17 GMT

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Yes, I can accept XMR equivalent to the sats amount to my Monero :monero: payment target and then manually whitelist you, for now. Need to do a bit of API tweaking, for something more permanent.
Just tag me, after you do it. 😊

2026-08-11 20:26:20 GMT

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I am hungry all day, but it feels different than I expected. It just makes me feel sort of light-headed and tired. Like I am floating or something.
And then it's dinner time and I eat a few spoonfuls of whatever and am full because my stomach has shrunk or something.
Weird experience, this intermittant fasting thing.

2026-08-11 20:23:33 GMT

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Could I pay his invoice @npub10np…tl5h or how could that work?

2026-08-11 20:22:42 GMT

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Thanks. You're whitelisted on theforest because @npub1q6y…t3sh asked me to add you, but we are grateful for all donations. 💝

2026-08-11 19:36:26 GMT

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Spot the sadist. 😂

2026-08-11 19:06:11 GMT

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That's been a bit of a mystery, how we could do it. Most people's DMs are wonky and PMs never caught on.
You can overpay, to stock up an account, as another method.

2026-08-11 18:42:40 GMT

Hi, y'all. If you have a subscription to wss://theforest.nostr1.com, we at #GitCitadel would greatly appreciate you topping it up and helping us finance the relay.
If you don't have one, but want to help support our efforts and those of our relay operator @npub10np…tl5h , you can get a subscription here:
https://theforest.nostr1.com/
Thank you, in advance. 🫶

2026-08-11 18:11:03 GMT

Life is easier and cheaper, if you only eat dinner.

2026-08-11 15:46:11 GMT

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The people who worked. It's a very modern idea, that everyone should be working. Workers used to be a class of people.

2026-08-11 15:43:23 GMT

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Also involves some survivorship bias. The products that haven't gone under after a long time tend to be good. That isn't an open-source phenomenon, that's just the product life cycle.

2026-08-11 15:42:02 GMT

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It's the share price rise and higher than inflation. Like a hysterical buyer squeeze.

2026-08-11 15:25:32 GMT

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Unemployment was higher, people didn't tend to work while studying, and most young women were housewives.

2026-08-11 15:19:46 GMT

Young German citizens (Gen Z) are more likely to work, and to work more hours, than the previous generations.
https://laeserin.blossom.band/3bae69f0e14ec26f3d123a1fb9910be82ff5d13df9f53e45bc9415d0211e42a9.png

2026-08-11 12:18:42 GMT

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They tend to be encrypted.

2026-08-11 11:30:26 GMT

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https://media.tenor.com/_Vl9y9Q2QIMAAAAC/alive-akward.gif

2026-08-11 11:04:18 GMT

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I see people just put up a wire grid and grow vines, all the time. They lose the leaves in the winter and then the terrace is sunny again.

2026-08-11 11:01:59 GMT

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Yeah, same vibes, fr.
To be honest, devs blocking software testers is not a good look, but okay.

2026-08-11 10:54:24 GMT

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Bitcoin was never the dream.
Free, uncensorable, fully-accountable, self-custodial money was the dream.
The dream is the problem to be solved. Bitcoin is _currently_ the best solution to solve that problem.
What I see too much of, in the Bitcoin space, is people choosing the solution or altering the solution, and then warping the problem to match it. And then we risk ending up with an unsolved core problem, after we thought that we had already solved it.

2026-08-11 10:49:54 GMT

I think everyone in that thread has both of my npubs blocked. I tried. 🤷🏻‍♀️
#nevent1q…dn7x

2026-08-11 10:43:24 GMT

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I was thinking of grapes and other vines above the rooftop terrace, tho. Totally sunny, all day, but too windy for a solid roof.

2026-08-11 10:38:28 GMT

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Adding the solar panels will have a similar effect on the roof. Function as roof-shade.

2026-08-11 10:32:49 GMT

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We already have grapes growing on the south wall and trees and overhangs.
The problem is that the upper floor was a later addition that is just a built-out attic.
That is why the lower floor is very cool, but the top one isn't.

2026-08-11 10:21:34 GMT

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That's what I am hoping.

2026-08-11 09:23:27 GMT

The discussion after the Cold Card fail has been dominated by people who have little professional experience with safety-critical systems, encryption, or microcontrollers.
The people who recommended it to you now want to explain how it was wrong.
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2026-08-11 09:11:16 GMT

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This is the first year where it really became a topic. Didn't really need one, before, as it has never been this hot for this long.
Next year might be much cooler and then we'll end up feeling a bit silly.

2026-08-11 08:45:11 GMT

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We're getting ceiling fans for all rooms and adding air conditioning to the upper floor. Requires a rebuild and long wait times for the delivery, tho. Everyone is ordering at the same time.
Lower floor never gets above 25°C.

2026-08-11 08:04:39 GMT

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still hot

2026-08-11 07:52:46 GMT

It's a mirage. Everything costs more, over there, and life is harsher and harder. And that was comparing between middle-class households.
#nevent1q…cf6g

2026-08-11 06:54:09 GMT

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Ah, nice. Using this.

2026-08-11 06:52:39 GMT

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You don't need to check the output, to see that the logic was fundamentally flawed.

2026-08-11 06:38:15 GMT

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Open-source strongly _disincentivizes_ testing because there is no liability. The programmers are usually anon or a bot, and they just vomit their shit up in GitHub and then make like a banana.
And nobody tests other people's OSS stuff. Even now, they're all out looking only for this one bug. Things are only caught if the code is directly integrated into your own codebase, and even then only if they test all of their libraries (LOL).

2026-08-11 06:34:54 GMT

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GM ☀️

2026-08-11 05:56:23 GMT

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Or in an upper floor, like our apartment. We can at least hang out, downstairs.

2026-08-10 21:20:36 GMT

Bis zu 39°F bis Freitag. 🥵🌡️🔥

2026-08-10 19:40:49 GMT

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Yeah, just checked. Average is 15 GB per, 45 GB altogether.

2026-08-10 18:55:28 GMT

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We already have Wikepedia, Project Gutenberg, and Open Library on Nostr relays.

2026-08-10 18:51:58 GMT

Mood. Sweltering.
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2026-08-10 18:24:41 GMT

I just realized that lots of us were doing white face or brown face or yellow face or red face in plays, passions, nativities, or skits, for decades and nobody noticed or cared because everyone knew that theater isn't real and that is why there are costumes.

2026-08-10 18:21:07 GMT

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literally me
🙈 I can't remember names. Plagues my whole existence.

2026-08-10 17:58:53 GMT

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I saw expensive vehicles held together by literal duck tape, while on vacation to Texas.

2026-08-10 16:20:22 GMT

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GM.
Day after relaxing weekend getaway exhaustion, in this house. 😂

2026-08-10 14:08:54 GMT

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That's what I meant in the OP by assets already being divvied up politically. That applies on a larger and smaller scale.
If you get a job working for a big corp or the gov, making $250k, then you might get the pretty girl and the house on the lake, but why did you get that job? Was it always merit? Mostly nepotism and politics, right, like in the medieval ages.
So, does eliminating income entirely just double-down on this effect and entrench it deeper?

2026-08-10 13:47:14 GMT

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Some assets are prime, tho, and maintain their value even if they become untradeable. We used to solve that with war and duels and stuff, right?
Money was our system for not having to fight to the death over every nice piece of real estate, pretty girl, or clean water source.

2026-08-10 13:37:07 GMT

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Also just decided making transactions of a privacy coin public is fundamentally retarded.

2026-08-10 13:31:55 GMT

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nosmero does, in theory, but I couldn't get that wallet to work.

2026-08-10 12:37:16 GMT

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I can tell you've never gone 200 mph. 😁
Hardly anyone does it, even here. Really hard to drive that fast.

2026-08-10 12:28:06 GMT

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Because some things are truly scarce.
How do you determine who gets to hang a Picasso in their house, have waterfront property on Lake Austin, marry the most beautiful girl, or use season tickets to the Ravens stadium, gain entry to the Taylor Swift concert or the antique Alpine gondala, without some sort of trade?

2026-08-10 12:14:57 GMT

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He got over 110 mph and that's enough to make me very still. 👀😂
I've been a lot faster, but our station wagon isn't exactly a Lambo. Whole thing gets loud.

2026-08-10 12:06:00 GMT

I don't know how assets can even be owned, when no one has jobs. If we all get AI-ABI, we'd all have the same income. Where does the money to purchase assets then come from? Savings? So we make the current wealth disparities permanent?
Or do assets just become worthless as a savings vehicle and we just divvy them up amongst the populace by who is most favored by the government?
I mean, we could argue that we _already_ divvy them up that way...
#nevent1q…4dr8

2026-08-10 06:00:55 GMT

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I didn't bother with zaps, in my Android native app. Just payment targets.
More secure than integrating wallets, or permanent connections to wallets, in a social media app. Explodes the threat model.

2026-08-10 05:59:24 GMT

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Awww... sweet. 🤩

2026-08-10 05:58:51 GMT

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Good luck!

2026-08-10 05:51:58 GMT

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First grade is so exciting. Congratulations, to her! 🎉

2026-08-10 05:49:37 GMT

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She still hasn't married him.

2026-08-10 05:46:58 GMT

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Didn't everyone with such concerns long switch to Monero? This effort seemed like shutting the barn door after the cows have escaped.

2026-08-10 05:38:22 GMT

Okay, who was it?
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2026-08-10 05:03:06 GMT

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There is no speed limit.
The right to drive your car insanely fast shall not be infringed.

2026-08-09 20:47:07 GMT

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Every country has the equivalent of an Autobahn. But not two. Don't be greedy.

2026-08-09 19:58:03 GMT

Hubby lost a crazy amount of weight, while I was in the States, so he's back to looking and acting like James Bond and I am constantly uneasy, intimidated, and weirdly fascinated.
I had forgotten how accurate my impression of a terrified bunny is, and how hard it is to stare at him, admiringly, without getting caught and facing that hawk-like, glittering, turquoise stare.
So, what else is new?