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nntp was built on horribly naive assumptions that do not carry to the present day internet. nostr is a better option.

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 sing…

> 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 tex…

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 b…

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 t…

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…

no recaptcha / works on tor, unlike archive.is: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.newyorker.com/news/le...

I don't know. I think people would notice if Google were being MITM'd on Tor.

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 so…

Presumably these are lightning invoices, which can resolve in milliseconds.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 short…

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 tha…

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.

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…

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 no…

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 f…

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 …

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 …

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 avail…

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.

> 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 t…