Ok, this version is a lot better already. Tuin, our collective decentralized network of gardens as our children's online environment. https://npub1xre6736ae3m7nlfkx2sgxj4saul4t0jcmadstz2yuvffzssk874qnkhef8.nsite.lol/

Ive had a look and there is still a lot of the technical parts bleeding through. Tasking the robots to try again on something more straightforward. Going through the current site though, it sort of feel surreal that all the functionality supposedly is real (i have not actually tested it, i am just praying the robots are not gaslighting me) View quoted note →

Ive thusfar approached the Trust Extended Permissions Protocol (TEPP) from a "negative" perspective of preventing things. Obviously so because from a technical perspective it is a permission system. But now that the alpha build of the engine is done, and i need to start implementing it, i tasked myself to look at it in a' 'positive'' manner, as something that is created and facilitates. I ended up with Tuin. Tuin means garden in Dutch. In both languages (perhaps in others as well, but i only knew these two), a yard or garden already carriers this connotation of a shaped, maintained, safe and accomodating space. As such it already has explicit relation to childer; a kindergarten(hehe guess that is German), a school yard and in Dutch a playground is a play garden. The point of TEPP is that as parents, you are able to craft a garden and connect it to other gardens. I imagine this large network of interconnected gardens that 'our' children are able to roam. The idea is not so much that you go and inspect other gardens in their precise lay-out etc., but that you mostly base it off the other gardners, the other parents or organizations that crafted their space. If something goes wrong, you know where in this interconnected network of gardens that is open to your child it occured and you can take action. Now, I took this perspective and gave it to the robot. My brain is cooked so i will look at it in the morning if it is any good, but please have look and tell me if any of it is making any sense https://npub1axgj364mgguu44vqm4q728zcvx6pj3yuzhluxay099ht3kjx9qfq7s8ckj.nsite.lol/

The world is full of ''communities'', where people share a particular interest and organize themselves around that interest. Oldtimer cars, or jigsaw puzzles. Lets take the latter. You have the market for jigsaw puzzles, with people designing and selling them, you have people creating content around the puzzles discussing or solving them. There are tournaments of all sorts where puzzles are done competatively. It does not really matter what the ''community'', or perhaps you can call it ''hobby'' is. The thing i want to draw attention to here is the interaction and organization surrounding it. The internet facilitated a lot of these things, allowing people with shared interest to find eachother regardless of where they are on this earth, as well as give them to tools do perform these interactions and manage organizing things. Youtube channels, websites, reddit stuff, tweets, we use what these platfoms provide in order to do all these things. Nostr is an obvious (to me/us) answer. You can create whatever bespoke app/client/enfornment for your hobby/community, on this interoperable substrate. The infrastructure won't be dependent on a particular company, and the community is never forced into some migration. Ofcourse, within that infrastrure things may shift in terms of both actors, relays and apps used, but there are always these interoperable tie-ins that generally keep things ''together''. @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻🍁 mentioned it in its interview with @Seth that "Bitcoiners" are just the first ''community'' to addopt Nostr. As a result ''we'' (partially) molded the environment around this interest. In a way, what Nostr needs, or perhaps could use/benefit from, is taking whatever particular interest/hobby you have and ''community'' you are in, to take the environment that Nostr provides and build an infrastructure for it and convince the others in the community to use it. Not saying that it is easy/trivial, but it atleast is a somewhat clear ambition. An agenda nip/standard becomes more valuable to more clubs of whatever kind use it to organize their meetups and competitions. The more standards become more standard, the more the standard which these standards function becomes move valuable. Where do we want to build and acrew the value?

I hosted a dinner last night, and abused the situation to test the new update of Table mesh with 5 people and 8 devices. It worked! There were some rough edges as well as a catastrophic failure right at the end, but that was because i intentionally tried to break things. That was from a technical perspective, but i also observed what actually happened at the table. People were mostly focussed on their own screen/phone. They did share the experience, but the attention was not focussed on the center of the table where normally the board would be, eventhough i had a tablet that displayed the board; all the information the player needed was on their phone as well, and as such never bothered to look elsewhere. This part needs some reflection as well.

In this interview i thought i would attempt to explain perhaps the most arcane insight behind Nostr. I think i failed, but thats not the end of the world. I won't do a full attempt here and now, but the point is that verifiability on the one hand, and context on the other is what makes Nostr ''work'' eventhough theoretically it should not. A pubkey or a hash are just meaningless strings. If i would hand you such at string, it would just be a random garbled mess. And it is, it very much is a random garbled mess, that is very much the point of such strings. It is only because there are things associated to those strings, be that an event in the case of the eventID/hash, or an actor in the case of a public key, that it gains any meaning. This begs the question as to how you would find out what that associated thing is, where you would find it. And it is this question that is the reason that from a theoretical perspective the unsolveable problem comes in; there is no full proof method or insurance you ever will. It just so happens that in practice, we have all these servers that make an effort of indexing this association. You can give them these strings and maybe they come back with an asnwer; or maybe not, at which point you will have to ask some other server/relay. But these random strings, in practice, rarely stand on their own. Each event always stand in the context of its publisher in the first place, but may also itself be referenced by other events from other publishers. These publishers also reference eachother (chief among such references is a follow list), so in actuality there is this lively network of active references that quickly scatters among the relays. Once you find the association, you know you found it because you can verify, so each attempt, each quest for context atleast carries this promise that you know you arived at your destination once you get there, eventhough there is no promise you will ever get to the destination. So regardless how scattered the data may be, in its fragmentation it is indexed, and in its 'liveliness' it is interconnected through reference, and in its answers it provides context, and in its context it delivers meaning. And thats how you go from a meaningless string to meaning. The reason for all of this is so that everyone can permissionlessly operate on the same interoperable plane and we don't need a cental party, a platform, to provide context and therefor meaning for us. It is the method by which we liberate ourselves from the silo, whatever it is we are doing. It is how we solve for coordination, be that on Nostr itself, be that for Blossom, be that for Ngit or whatever else. It is how we flipped the script, so that instead of all going to the exact same place to interact, we can manage to go wherever the other happens to be to interact, in order to fullfill the promise of the internet that everyone potentially can get into contact with anybody else. Ok, maybe i sort of did do an attempt to explain it again, and frankly I don't think i did much of a better job than i did during the interview, but...i dunno, bite me. Nostr. View quoted note →

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I have said this before, but an ncryptsec on a nfc card/tag is probably the best minimal viable nostr-key back-up solution i can think off. To expand on that. If there is any bazillionaire willing to trow away money on something stupid: how about just sending a physical letter to a whole municipality or province or state or country or whatever that includes such a nfc card. The letter simply explains to people that digital liberty finaly has arived, they don't have to sign any contract or pay anyone anything. A couple of onboarding steps and the remark that its not a service and there is no service desk so if they need help they should ask their neigbour or nephew or whatever. Frankly, just as an object of study i would like to see something like that happening. So send money to my foundation and who knows, i might do it🤷‍♂️