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https://www.vaughnnugent.com

Building software they don't like.
Low-level and server engineer: libnoscrypt, NVault, vnlib.

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2024-09-16 06:25:25

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Seems like a psyop to get everyone to post images of their left arm

2024-09-13 16:20:00

I don't want nips to tell me how to design my data structures and API. Too many of you OOP devs leaking code abstractions into the protocol specs IMO. nip44 was a lot of work to abstract away from the API into an architectural blueprint. I enjoy reading scientific white papers and RFCs way more because it doesn't tell me how to write code. Even NIP01 couldn't explain the spec without code.
I'm just grumpy when reading
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1494

2024-09-11 19:58:11

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How is feedback not a requirement, but instead a cop-out: "it's simply too resource intensive"

2024-09-09 20:58:17

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NP! The ELF stuff is way over my head, but they have done some pretty wicked OS "hacking"

2024-09-09 20:51:05

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Okay, let me do some searching and digging and Ill see what else I have saved that might help!
Have you looked into FreeRTOs? I had to dabble the tiniest bit when working on a school project a while ago. Then I got into directly working with Atmel hardware bare metal. From 2018-2023 I spent learning early 8065 (pre x86 but tightly coupled to early stuff)
Something also worth looking into is the Cosmo LibC project https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan. Justine is awesome and so is her discord! I mention this because most of her library is highly hardware optimized and plenty of asm to go around.
There are a couple other folks in the discord like ahgamut and paulclinger along with some other peeps from NIST and other orgs that are just awesome to read and chat with too

2024-09-08 01:04:59

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You're right! Hosting is a lot of work (at least for me) and what I thought I wanted. Very trial and error, never really advertised nor had an audience to advertise to. Hoping to get a new co-host at some point or change the style, or do a better job solo.
I'm pretty picky about my editing so it usually takes me a couple weekends to edit them up

2024-09-08 00:25:24

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A dead one XD. My co-host got busy with life and so did I so it got put on hold. He's not really interested in this kind of stuff anymore so it's going to need a revamp at some point.
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/podcast

2024-09-03 07:59:07

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I personally don't see them as much anymore. Most non-tech, non-apple peeps I know switched to pixels in the past 2 years

2024-09-03 07:44:14

GN. Is it really fair to call it Android anymore or is it just PixelOS? IPhone and Pixel.

2024-09-02 18:23:24

Am I the only one who washes dishes with downtime while cooking? Sometimes before I even sit down to eat XD
#nevent1q…n68x

2024-08-31 22:19:02

@npub1ye5…knpr How do I disable the client tag my notes in next.nostudel?
Also if I have a nip07 signer that strips undesired privacy tags, the event ID will change. IIRC nostrudel raises an error if the event id returned from the signer does not match the one submitted.

2024-08-31 07:51:13

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https://github.com/VnUgE/noscrypt/blob/225c2be092fbe6e7464de2046937989f99a419e1/wrappers/dotnet/VNLib.Utils.Cryptography.Noscrypt/tests/LibNoscryptTests.cs#L146

2024-08-31 06:45:51

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I don't follow. Like I mentioned in my GH reply the code released in the master branch and every tag are tested against the encryption and decryption vectors within the nip44 test file. They all pass. The latest c-sharp branch should pass for you. I do still need to merge it though.

2024-08-31 05:02:21

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Appreciate the tag! I just dropped a comment for you an others on noscrypt. Hopefully I will have some time this weekend I can help you if you still need it.

2024-08-30 17:17:04

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Any experience yourself?

2024-08-29 19:07:49

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Heck yeah! Ill be pretty busy for the next few days but can you share a link to your project?

2024-08-29 04:18:10

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I would love the novelty of that. I'd pay for that subscription! Then I would just need to take a Walkman with me when I travel. I try not to take a smartphone with me on walks and such, and even then it's pretty locked down.

2024-08-29 03:20:32

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What kind of tape are we talking and where buy?

2024-08-29 01:32:40

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Awesome thank you! I don't really use a smart phone so browser is ideal if they allowed it

2024-08-29 01:21:33

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You like the bots my friend. It looks like they do have a developer portal and API available

2024-08-29 00:28:37

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Client code can always be bypassed. If were talking hiding content from dirty relays for the majority of users yeah I this would be pretty useful! In the case of aedile, we maybe could add a toolkit/utility that can filter this content if it's fetched from a dirty relay. I don't recommend opinionated libraries so I think it should be left up to the application builder to decide how they want to handle this because csam stuff casts a wide net that is constantly expanding.
I've been thinking of the architecture more and how we might be able to implement a "pluggable" event filtering system which I think would be pretty neat, kind of similar to how Grain's kind handlers are implemented.

2024-08-28 18:20:59

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Right I'm aware of that but how do we implement that where GPG supports signing and verifying using an secp256k1 key

2024-08-27 20:29:39

Talk is cheap. When the government comes kicking, you're life changes. That hill you said you'd die on becomes real because you're forced to stand on it. Then you look at your kids, your spouse, the life you built, their futures, your life dead or behind bars for something made up.
This isn't dramatic, those who've been there know that I'm talking about. These actions happen in silence "why cover it in the news, they were clearly breaking the law".
These are very real events you need to know so we can build more resilient systems. Don't let your hubris convince you that you're safe. Most of my friends think I'm insane for building the tools I do, in my last gig and now. They told me to get out while I can, go do something more mainstream so you can sleep at night. To me, I'd get worse sleep living a "normal life" wishing I did something more, took a risk maybe, stood up for something I believed in.

2024-08-27 20:08:20

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Because their is no hiding behind a nym when you're under surveillance

2024-08-27 18:53:20

How big of a target do I have on my back for developing dedicated (nostr) cryptographic software? #asknostr
I have experience with the fed door kickers in the past and got lucky, trying to avoid that again without being a coward.

2024-08-27 18:45:29

Pushing noscrypt v0.1.4 updates to the nip44 repo
https://github.com/paulmillr/nip44/pull/16

2024-08-27 18:38:08

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I've spent like 9 months building https://github.com/VnUgE/noscrypt mostly around nip44, so I'm really hoping y'all can get us a spec that doesn't require another couple years of development for library devs :)

2024-08-27 15:15:02

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What are your thoughts? I'm listening

2024-08-25 22:40:08

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It's me, I'm people lol. You're right. I just have a lot to write

2024-08-25 22:37:01

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I can :(

2024-08-25 22:29:05

Does anyone have recommendations on tools that can help me write professional grade documentation faster/better? I have dozens of articles to write it's just overwhelming how much time I need to spend writing them.
I don't need tools for publishing/hosting. I need things like auto generated templates or maybe actually good AI tools etc. Ideally designed to help write technical docs. Basically I just want help writing markdown files.

2024-08-25 22:11:43

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You people and docker XD

2024-08-25 19:20:42

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Finrod wants to be a "cool kid" and struggle running cln like me XD

2024-08-24 22:52:09

My friends:
-dual, full time, way above median incomes
-have 400k or more in debt because it's cheaper than rent
-live in homes all built before 1980
-less than 10k combined in savings
-don't run air conditioning in the summer except for the room their in
-keep heat set to 50*f and use portable heaters for bedrooms
-still have over $300 or more in utilities excluding internet
-no assets outside the house and a tiny 401k
-have a tiny weddings and finance the whole thing
-one car/person or less, older models, paid off
-have to finance home repairs because they don't have it
-won't go out unless I offer to pay
-don't go on vacations or trips far from home because money unless family pays for it
-stopped visiting long distance family
-stopped putting up holiday lights because it cost too much money in electric to run
-stopped eating expensive food and often share meals when eating out
-cant afford a wedding so kids are way out into mid 30s if that
For me the worst part for me is it makes people paranoid and risk adverse to literally everything. I only feel like I'm entitled to share my opinion is that these are mostly issues none of us grew up with, on a single income blue collar profession, had kids earlier, and were married in their early 20s. Let me know if I missed something for those under 30 y/o
Were just trading more time and getting a worse quality of life.
#nevent1q…mp5y

2024-08-23 22:44:01

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Sounds like skinny person energy XD

2024-08-23 22:43:12

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Arguably most of them arent, at least not the ones that have the confidence to call you up. I haven't decided whether I like support or not. I like building things so I guess I can't do both but I really enjoy talking to users

2024-08-23 20:26:09

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For sure. My time in support has taught me there needs to be some balance to keep a stable product, you'll never make 100% of users happy, but can't grow without listening. Support is expensive few companies even want to bear that cost, and usually don't, that's why us Americans always get Indian call centers XD

2024-08-23 20:01:09

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"I'm not that kind of developer"

2024-08-23 19:57:45

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Still usually some meat with the bread, but balancing macros means a little less red meat for now. Really just for variety over a week. Meats contain dense amounts of minerals along with diverse fats so have to have it, just a balance like everything!

2024-08-23 19:54:33

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This is actually funny because, again dietitian, want's me to bump calories to like 2700, 330g being carbs. So I went from eating like 1 roll or bun per week, to eating a bunch of fancy bread daily to get those carbs up where we need them XD

2024-08-23 19:50:01

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I'll keep you in mind if I get the energy to start mine back up for real again :)

2024-08-23 19:49:04

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I think most of us do, thats why I stated it like that :) Wouldn't have it any other way. I usually pick up the phone with some variant of GFY, so nostr was immediately home

2024-08-23 19:16:38

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Would agree. GFY is not usually very productive, I'll admit :) but say what you gotta say.

2024-08-23 18:20:10

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^ Yes remove it from your client :) assuming you can
Otherwise you can use something like to remove it
https://metadata.nostr.com/

2024-08-23 18:15:17

Don't be afraid to tell a dev to GFY.
Something that bothers me: when I see people post things like "I don't mean to upset/offend you" with an honest question or critique, or "I don't bother sharing my thoughts with devs because it's not received". Lets have some honest feedback on both sides hey? We create products we expect people to use, don't be shocked when people actually use them.
I don't want to be in safe space. My nostr friends are critical thinkers, they speak their minds and critique. How am I supposed to grow if I don't hear honest and free communication?
#nevent1q…znhf

2024-08-23 17:39:06

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I was playing with LoRa a few years ago, most of the guys in the club I was in at school were into RF stuff, most of the guys were EE I was the only CPE, so they were mostly messing with SDRs and making packet trackers. One of their projects was to be able to coordinate within 1 meter an 802.11 radio up to 1 mile with a single antenna and an SDR. They did it before I left.
I really like Microchip/Atmel products and their tools/libraries. I was writing firmware, and a linux driver for rpis for LoRa because it was really underdeveloped and even the SPI library was maked as partially working and no longer maintained. Probably still in use today. So i went to rewrite it all but life got in the way. Finding work has been tough, so I've had to try where there's more money and personal freedom and that seems to be software if I can land it. I don't want to give up on HW/FW but that's how I see it for now. I miss electronics/tinkering for sure!
That said. here is what's left of my lab. My other benches and large parts bins are still full but in my storage shed for now. I still want a nice logic and spectrum analyzer one of thes days.
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/public/resources/downloads/cms/c/l4wosdg5vs3c54fzrj25cww4ji.jpeg

2024-08-23 17:20:54

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XD. Yeah I did old stuff, 8065 things (yeah motorola version with a psudo x86 before it was released)
I wanted to get into datalogging development and newer model obd stuff but it's even harder to find that kind of black magic info. Diesel stuff is really undocumented and DMRs are just guess and check. And most people writing the DMR addresses don't even look at disassembly to see actually memory layout so it's just a guess (usually wrong) then uneducated tuners go melting engines down.
SAE makes you pay for everything and take stupid classes to get access to those documents. I of course, wanted to get into rom flashing via DLC, so bootmode and such.
I could spend all day talking about it even though I'm out of the game (EPA)

2024-08-23 17:12:15

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Don't be afraid to post your critiques! Not just me but every dev, I know what I open myself too when I share this stuff!

2024-08-23 16:59:20

C/C++ developers: noscrypt v0.1.4 just released (minor bug fixes)
noscrypt is a mostly portable C library that simplifies nostr specific cryptographic operations into a high level api, such as signing, verification, and of course encryption, without getting in your way. noscrypt is also the reference C implementation of nip44!
https://github.com/VnUgE/noscrypt/releases/tag/v0.1.4

2024-08-22 22:44:58

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Actually though, a Radioshack butane iron? I thought i was the only on on earth that still used one

2024-08-22 20:14:35

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I guess I should assume you aren't an American? If so I apologize if it isn't that simple where you live :)

2024-08-22 20:12:06

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hell yeah! I grew up around them, started shooting around 8 years old, skeet/trap around 10-11 maybe. Most of my friends and family the same way. It always gets me when I talk to someone who hasn't. So was it like "Wow now I what everyone was talking about" Or more like "meh, fun but I have no intentions of purchasing firearms?"

2024-08-22 17:17:42

from '[email protected]' - We regret to inform you
- "We have already filled this position"
- "We have gone a different direction"
- "We have chosen more skilled candidates"
We will keep you in mind for later :)

2024-08-22 17:02:13

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I bought a portable butane iron from Radioshack like 18 years ago. It's packed away somewhere but I use it when I need to solder big stuff like 10awg+ wires or just don't have electric where I'm working like when working on cars and such.

2024-08-22 04:32:31

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2024-08-22 04:26:50

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Yup. 99 F250

2024-08-22 01:19:12

Finally got around to replacing my third or fourth ceased, new OEM caliper since I've owned the thing. They don't make OEM parts like the used to. At some point I told our customers just to leave or rebuild what they have on the vehicles if it's more than 20 years old because the mfg new components are worse quality than the originals. (depends on the component of course)
These performance pads have less than 15k miles on them. The other side has about 3/4 pad left. It was an intermittent issue which is why it got this bad. And yes at some point it got so hot it boiled the new grease from the slide pins and wore the inner pad down.
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/public//resources/downloads/cms/c/4t5ipzrv5swcqeyornh44bwxjq.webp
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/public//resources/downloads/cms/c/dqdaqzkrchcgaif2kkqyacnska.webp

2024-08-21 23:57:11

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I'm simply arguing that any time investment has the ability to fail, because its a risk. I work maybe 10-20hrs/week on nostr related projects or team brainstorming, meanwhile earning 0 return. I have been doing that for over a year now in various ways. If I fail to make friends, market my products and gain a paying user-base I've done nothing for myself. If I fail to earn a profit directly or as a direct cause of my efforts, that's a failure.
>It means you can't see intrinsic value before it happens.
who determines value of a product or a time investment?

2024-08-21 16:06:47

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I suppose, a literal cause an effect, but it doesn't mean my time investment helped my career or earned me a profit.

2024-08-21 04:14:22

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Thanks. I believe it will be pretty valuable for the more advanced/paranoid users like myself

2024-08-21 03:30:13

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Basically, or consider it a risky time investment if you will.

2024-08-21 03:29:26

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I do as the Stella guides XD

2024-08-21 03:23:41

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Stop. Get help.
https://github.com/VnUgE/NVault

2024-08-20 23:08:04

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Got it! Idk man I'm kind of an SBC fanboy. You don't need no stinking big block to make some power anymore :)

2024-08-20 20:04:54

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Also holy crap what a view! "Palm" trees and mountains

2024-08-20 20:02:29

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I'm not really a Chevelle guy but I really like your setup. Did you paint match that headlight fascia or is that factory? Also you said Chevelle Malibu? What's the Malibu part?

2024-08-20 17:40:53

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In the long time preference yes. I really dream of the period where creators produce enough value in their content they can sustain themselves. Although I don't know that I believe that the idea that content itself is sustaining, I believe it still should have a business component to it, but free markets should prove me right or wrong.
I think in the short term, if we stick on the path were on, ad monetization is nearly impossible on the platforms themselves, so it's a good thing long term, loss aversion in the short term for on-boarding. In many ways ads become a plague imo. Ads are necessary, and I do think people want to be advertised too, but it goes too far every time. OTA, cable, streaming platforms, etc.
Anyway I'm excited for that future and hope we as builders can stay focused on that because the legacy systems don't want that.

2024-08-20 06:03:21

Maybe I'll start going to sleep at a better time. GN

2024-08-20 05:12:24

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XD. But on the CAD note, I guess I'm not surprised. I have to wonder if everything where computer guys overlap with mechanical guys this occurs.

2024-08-20 05:05:29

Story time! Back when I was in automotive I had this idea:
We sold modified ECU firmware, in competition with other companies. Each company had their own pros and cons so we were never in direct competition. There is almost no one with software experience in the field. Files are "closed source", encrypted manually for every customer, then sent to users via email. Companies "need" to maintain their IP, that's just how it is, not for competition (I built a tool to crack the encryption, not hard) but mostly for pirates. The hardware devices that we targeted were locked down and closed source, so we just had to deal with it. The encryption software is protected by legalese, and only runs on Windows so I had to uh, dance around it...
With that in mind, most competition really doesn't understand how to run and maintain custom software. The idea was to host the storefront ourselves but paying companies would have a store that users could browse and purchase their firmware options. We would send them a server software package that gave them a nice UI to load files into and they would remain on their premises. Their machine would "host" their dedicated storefront (websocket with jrpc to our storefront). So files never left their control unencrypted, and they had control over their personal storefront on their own servers. I even wanted to defer payment handling to their nodes too. It was a complicated mess but I was and still am certain we could have sold it without much trouble.
#sillyideas #funtimes #automotive

2024-08-20 02:03:22

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You may not be logging but your VPS provider probably is. If your self hosting (ive seen your laptop closet) than I assume you're proxying via cloudflare

2024-08-19 19:38:09

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I mean using it as medium to discover people, and therefor irl opportunities. I use and encourage others to only use "social media" for about 30 mins or less per day. I usually stick to that. That's all I've ever used socials for. My previous time spent on Facebook was inside communities. It landed my previous job and one of my closest irl friends, and helped me build a small technical community in my previous work field, of which I still get to speak with and on rare occasions meet up with, even though I'm no longer active in automotive.
That's been my experience mostly positive. I've never used Twitter and other short form social apps but from what Ive understood over the years my experience was a bit more underground.

2024-08-18 05:41:14

When explaining technical things to me you should assume I'm a grumpy Windows developer from 2001, and I still write most applications in assembly.

2024-08-18 02:30:26

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I maintain a mini data-center at home which must run 24/7 and make money :) My issue is most of the lighting related projects (that aren't mobile wallets) are unstable and/or just disregard some standard security practices, and have horrible UX. I already have enough server maintenance and aggressive security practices I'm cautious to add more security holes and headaches to the network.

2024-08-18 00:11:21

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I think there may be too much overlap with "practical realities" and cop out. Not in all cases, I guess it depends why were here.

2024-08-17 23:48:16

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Fair. Things always sound more clear in my head :) I think this deserves a blog or something more long form.

2024-08-17 23:19:19

Is it always about the money?

2024-08-17 23:15:20

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>The problem is still user education, and we keep avoiding it.
That's because user education isn't a product that can be easily sold or marketed. People want to purchase bandaids, pills, and duct tape. People simply want to be sold good enough.

2024-08-17 23:11:31

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To be clear I'm not attacking you, your platform, or your products. I'm speaking out loud.
I believe I'm also a generally a realist that's refusing to ignore a problem with the idea of marketing a product to slightly-above average users wanting to host a relay. I'm refusing to ignore the "well that's just the way it is" it feels like enabling a systemic problem. I spent many years in customer support simply providing education about a complex topic myself and still believe those were resources well spent. I'm arguing you cannot truthfully make the promise of nostr freedom using cloud services. Therefor it should not be marketed as such if that's going to be the case.
I would consider myself quite versed in sysadmin world and am regularly hit with the complications of the lifestyle of maintaining a mini data center of enterprise equipment.
I refuse to accept the "reality is people are simply too dumb, busy or bothered" so I will sell them convenience and a one-size fits all approach in perpetuity. The problem is still user education, and we keep avoiding it.
I will accept that no economic incentives exist to educate users. In fact economic incentives exist to keep users ignorant in much of the world. Most TV commercials express the message "don't do X, we can do it for you"
I just think we need to be more cautious about how were marking products and still align with the promises that can be delivered, when nostr generally makes grandiose freedom and ownership promises.

2024-08-17 22:56:58

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One of my best friends has gotten into newsletters and been trying to convince me to start one for a while now but it's a job so have to dedicate time and all. Figured I'd see if you'd be interested considering you're fantastic at just about everything it takes to run an email newsletter

2024-08-17 21:16:38

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Correct. "Censorship resistance" is no longer a selling point when people are encouraged to load up their relay in the same cloud.
I think maybe we don't need to reach individuals and encourage them to setup cloud relays, because again my argument is cloud relays don't strengthen censorship resistance, so unless you need a private relay for private things, I don't think its right to encourage normies to cloud host a relay, it's a false predicate.
We need to encourage self-hosted hosted platforms like you mentioned to get relays into the hands of hosters. And get everyone's geeky friend to set them up a relay on their own metal.
I would rather rely on the hardcore nostr developers hosting public relays (paid or not) and having normies use them over private cloud relays.
I think people (specifically in the US) forget how much control the ABCs have over cloud providers and how much data they hoover, I think it's doing user's a disservice in the long run.

2024-08-17 20:34:12

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I think the economic incentives will always vertically align with SaaS. I think about this daily. But do we actually have nostr if relays mostly exist in the cloud. Do we have censorship resistance if relays mostly exist in the cloud.
Keyword mostly. Do we want to encourage users to host cloud relays vs just paying for public relays? We can then defer trust to the more central relay hosters as they are more likely motivated than cloud hosters.
I think governments have the power to fire the cannon at cloud providers. On top of that becomes data privacy, relays generally aren't all that secure in terms of data storage. As secure as a cloud database and an HTTPS connection that can be intercepted by the cloud provider as a service as well.

2024-08-17 20:06:20

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I want to give some gentle pushback on RaaS. The largest overarching idea is to decentralize. Nostr isn't decentralized when the majority of relays become hosted on AWS behind cloudflare. Regardless of the cloud provider, reminder that cloud = someone else's servers.
> So here’s the question: How do we turn a service like relay.tools into something every nostr user MUST HAVE?

2024-08-17 19:12:45

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I'm allergic to short form content

2024-08-17 05:58:56

So I recently started blocking *.google.com and *.youtube.com at a DNS level. It broke a huge amount of websites, way more than I expected. I already can't access CloudFlare proxied sites. The web is becoming a lonely place without a smartphone, Google, or CloudFlare. What happened to hosting assets with your websites.

2024-08-16 23:29:00

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Oh right, yeah kind of forgot about that part.

2024-08-16 19:52:34

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Take a look at nostr.net for some existing projects. There aren't many C/C++ projects yet, but were betting there will be
I sort of have an embedded background in old automotive processors, mostly binary editing and disassembly, but I have a long list of projects you may be interested in
I mostly write C, C++ and C# libraries (over 500k lines of code in my repos)
https://github.com/vnuge
- C low-level cryptograhpy library https://github.com/vnuge/noscrypt
- C++ nostr sdk https://github.com/buttercat1791/aedile-ndk
- C# low level utility libraries (for server app development) - https://github.com/vnuge/vnlib.core
- C# full stack server + browser extension for nostr nip07 - https://github.com/vnuge/nvault
if you visit https://www.vaughnnugent.com it is served to you using my http framework and web server software :)

2024-08-16 19:31:07

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LFG!
If you ever need help anything don't be afraid to ask around!

2024-08-15 23:24:48

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I have been very conflicted on this, I guess it's worth reconsidering the idea of nip-09 == privacy. I personally would (and still intend to) manage a note archive for permanent history, ignoring any deletes of course. I suppose this would likely only relate to kind01, however if I was a pita I would also hoover nip46 traffic and other npub identifying traffic to prove a point. The world is full of malicious people, and I firmly believe once you touch your keyboard you are voluntarily producing information that could be of value to a bad actor. I don't want computing systems to function this way, but the reality is they do.
to also reply to @npub1njs…7fqx point on "Good Enough deletion to stop an opportunistic bad actor" it only requires someone like me to stand-up an archival service and all it takes is someone to search a profile to supply these "opportunistic bad actors". In fact one could argue this is worse as deletion events could also be recorded and shown that user's attempted to hide/edit notes. I'm simply stating this is too easily combated and will always be the case when content is distributed, period. We cannot force people who believe in permanent history to respect your pseudo-privacy.

2024-08-15 19:00:20

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Well do be fair, I don't ever want a user (including myself) to have an nsec that accessible. It's not a password. I have to jump though about 5 hoops to see my nsec on purpose.

2024-08-15 18:03:54

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Um. yeah. lol
I don't think I like coffee enough to drink decaf is what I'm saying. I like it enough to drink for caffeine. But yeah most of the time I enjoy a good cup of something flavored but black.

2024-08-15 16:47:18

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But noobs will become advanced users eventually

2024-08-15 16:39:51

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That's what I'm saying. I turned it off completely a few years ago and haven't noticed a reason to turn it back on. Firefox still tracks closed tabs and windows which I use frequently, but that's it.

2024-08-15 16:31:07

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I don't do caffeine anymore but I don't know that I enjoy the taste of coffee enough to drink it for any other reason. Some flavors can be good enough I guess. I usually drink my coffee black.

2024-08-15 16:28:32

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1+ on the blondes thing
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExYXZyeWZqcHdxNHVxbnlldzd1MjVyMnc0cHI3bmF5NjR1NDVucXQxcyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/fqIBaMWI7m7O8/giphy.webp

2024-08-15 16:20:25

How many of you have browser history on but don't actually every use it? You probably don't need it, especially on mobile where you can be compelled to give it up.

2024-08-14 20:14:20

Controversial opinion: I hate material "theme"
Font, font sizes, colors, icons, padding, all of it bothers me. I don't find it easy to read and appealing. The only exception is the vscode icon pack with a good theme.

2024-08-14 06:42:03

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That's been me for a couple of weeks. I usually have to refresh the page whenever I want nip05 names or profiles to show up. I rarely see pfps. I always have to refresh for content to load.

2024-08-13 07:43:14

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>That's harder for women to do, tho.
Yeah, I'm sure and I suppose I'm quite young so probably part of it too.
With my new eating routines I can workout pretty quickly after eating if I want to. I learned how to very carefully asses hunger/fullness cues so I don't over eat and I'm good. However meals are usually for quick recovery so always after a workout. The more frequent the meals the easier it is to listen to those cues and eat when slightly hungry so no overeating happens.
I was most worried about carbs, so we spent most of the time learning about that an blood sugar cycles.
Basically its this: Carbs are your source of energy, as they are quickly converted into glucose. It takes energy to breakdown proteins and fats into glucose so it's avoided if possible. glycogen and protein stores in muscles will be robbed before your digestion will attempt to convert proteins/fats into glucose, thus always leaving your muscles starved for necessary proteins and glycogen energy stores, so you generally feel weaker on a low carb diet and struggle even maintaining muscle.
Glucose is only absorbed during the duration of raised insulin production. If glucose is "left over" during that cycle or cannot be absorbed fast enough, it's absorbed by adipose which is also stimulated by insulin. Which is why quickly digested carbs cause such a high (and fast) spike in blood sugar causing poor consumption of carbs and increased adipose growth along with poor muscular uptake. Fruits and other higher-fiber simple carbs are helpful in this space. "The body does not know the difference in a given carb molecule, it all becomes glucose" as she would tell me.
I try to follow the blood sugar wave which is pretty good at telling you when you need more fuel, proteins don't hang around in the AA "pool" for very long, so you have to top them up regularly. So that's what I learned and seems to be working really well for me right now. Mixed macro meals, 3:1 carb to protein+fats ratio, eat within 1 hour of waking, then workout before a meal, learn hunger/fullness cues. Few/no long carb molecules (starches). Get a good mix of all fruits/veggies, whole grain stuff, lean and fatty meats on rotation with other good fats like milk nuts and the like when needed.

2024-08-12 23:52:19

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I have tried a handful of diets, most of them are restrictive, which helped me lose my big 60lbs but suffered in so many other ways, mostly mentally. For me we have been focusing on a diverse mixed macro diet, at regular intervals, usually 3 full sized meals and 3 protein biased snacks.
I'm basically in a part time college course with this nutrition work lol. She gives me homework, there's a textbook (she just gives me pdf snippets of) slides and everything XD. She is an active prof at UPenn so I guess that's where it comes from